{"product_id":"9780306429699","title":"Organizational Science Abroad: Constraints and Perspectives","description":"\u003ch1\u003eOrganizational Science Abroad: Constraints and Perspectives\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eOsigweh, C.A.B., Yg.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganizing consists of making other people work. We do this by manip­ ulating symbols: words, exhortations, memos, charts, signs of status. We expect these symbols to have the desired effects on the people con­ cerned. The success of our organizing activities depends on whether the others do attach to our symbols the meanings we expect them to. Whether or not they do so is a function of what I have sometimes called \"the programs in their minds\" -their learned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting-in short, a function of their culture. The assumption that organizations could be culture-free is naive and myopic; it is based on a misunderstanding of the very act of organizing. Certainly, few people who have ever worked abroad will make this assumption. The dependence of organizations on their people's mental pro­ grams does not mean, of course, that we do not find many similarities across organizations. Some characteristics of human mental program­ ming are universal; others are shared by most people in a continent, a country, a region, an industry, a scientific discipline, or even a gender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1989-01-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780306429699\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4899-0912-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 340\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46312378007692,"sku":"9780306429699","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780306429699.jpg?v=1771525003","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780306429699","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}