The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Introduction and background, I. Philosophy of Organizational Dynamism, 1. Tsuyoshi Numagami, Toshizumi Ohta and Ikujiro Nonaka: Self-renewal of Corporate Organizations: Equilibrium, Self-sustaining, and Self-renewing models, 2. Haruo Hata and Charles Adamson: Self-Organization in Informatics, 3. Magoroh Maruyama: Mindscape Theory and its Relevance for Japanese Management, 4.Vera Calenbuhr : What can we learn from biological networks? II. Organizational Behavior and the Management of the Firm, 5. Tetsunori Koizumi: Japanese Mangagement as a Set of Cybernetic Principles of Managing Human Systems, 6. Haruo Takagi: Group Decision Making in the 'Self-organization' Perspective, 7. Kenshu Kikuzawa: Progressive and Degenerative Problemshifts of Organization - Organizational Evolution based on Critical Rationalism, 8. Shigekazu Ishihara, Keiko Ishihara, Mitsuo Nagamachi and Alfredo Pinochet: Neutral Network Simulation of QC Circle Activities, III. Symbiotic Interaction with the Environment, 9. Frank-Jurgen Richter and Yoshiya Teramoto : Population Ecology versus Network Dynamics: From Evolution to Co-evolution, 10. Milan Zeleny: Comparative Management Systems: Trade-Offs-Free Concept, 11. Nobuyuki Chikudate: Communicating through On-line Database Systems: A Strategy for Monitoring Corporate Environments, 12. Kenji Tanaka: Autonomous Anticipative Management and its Evolutionary Process, Bibliography, Index