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BL
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980898
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b735268
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The firm as a collaborative community : : reconstructing trust in the knowledge economy /\ [edited by] Charles Heckscher and Paul S. Adler.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006.
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1 online resource (x, 592 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1423767993
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: 9781423767992
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Framing Concepts; 1. Towards Collaborative Community; 2. A Real-Time Revolution in Routines; 3. The Self in Transition: From Bureaucratic to Interactive Social Character; Part II: Community inside Firms; 4. Mastering the Law of Requisite Variety with Differentiated Networks; 5. Beyond Hacker Idiocy: The Changing Nature of Software Community and Identity; 6. Health Care Organizations as Collaborative Learning Communities; 7. Hyperconnected Net Work: Computer-Mediated Community in a High-Tech Organization
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8. Collaborative Community and Employee RepresentationPart III: Community across Firms; 9. Building Inter-Firm Collaborative Community: Uniting Theory and Practice; 10. Collaboration in Supply Chains: With and without Trust; Part IV: The Process of Change; 11. A Note on Leadership for Collaborative Communities; 12. The Strategic Fitness Process and the Creation of Collaborative Community; 13. 'The Power to Convene': Creating Collaborative Community with Strategic Customers; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
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| Abstract
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This volume explores the changing nature of community in modern corporations. Community within and between firms - the fabric of trust so essential to contemporary business - has long been based on loyalty. This loyalty has been largely destroyed by three decades of economic turbulence, downsizing, and restructuring. Yet community is more important than ever in an increasingly complex, knowledge-intensive economy. The thesis of this volume is that a new form ofcommunity is slowly emerging - one that is more flexible and wider in scope than the community of loyalty, and that transcends the limi.
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Corporate culture, Case studies.
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Corporations-- Sociological aspects.
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Organizational behavior.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Corporate Business History.
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Corporate culture.
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Corporations-- Sociological aspects.
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Organizational behavior.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.045
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HD58.7.F57 2006eb
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| Added Entry
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Adler, Paul S.
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Heckscher, Charles C.,1949-
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