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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Sociologies of Class and Organization -- I. Classes, Structures and Actors -- Classes in Contemporary Capitalist Society: Recent Marxist and Weberian Perspectives -- Analytical Marxism and Class Theory -- Between Rational Choice and Durkheimian Solidarity -- "New" Social Inequalities and the Renewal of the Theory of Social Inequalities -- Classes, Collectivities and Corporate Actors -- II. Management in Class and Organization Structures -- Ownership and Management Strategy -- International Management and the Class Structure -- Managers and Social Classes -- Technical Workers: A Class and Organisational Analysis -- III. Class Restructuring and Organizations -- Disorganised Capitalism and Social Class -- Managing the Multinationals: The Emerging Theory of the Multinational Enterprise and Its Implications for Labour Resistance -- Work Organization Under Technological Change: Sources of Differentiation and the Reproduction of Social Inequality in Processes of Change -- The New Rise of Self-Employment and Industrial Structure -- IV. The Labour Process, Class Structure and Gender -- Exploring the Class and Organisational Implications of the UK Financial Services -- Organization and Class: Burawoy in Birmingham -- The Class/Gender/Organization Nexus -- Masculine/Feminine Organization: Class versus Gender in Swedish Unions -- V. Classless Organizations? -- Between Class Analysis and Organization Theory: Mental Labour -- Against the Current: Organizational Sociology and Socialism -- Political Domination and Reproduction of Classless Organizations -- Socialised Industry: Social Ownership or Shareholding Democracy? -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

`The breadth of the discussion and depth of analysis would make this a most pertinent work for those interested in a number of areas - economics, international business, finance - as well as organisation studies specialists' - The Times Higher Education Supplement.

The analysis of power has fallen under two central traditions. The conventional organizational theory focuses on power as illegitimate organization, employing illicit methods to coerce others into taking action. The labor process theory assumes that any type of authoritative organization is manipulative. The main argument against each theory has been the question of resistance, with the first theory identifying subtle forms of resistance & the second neglecting it altogether. In an effort to reconcile this, the labor process debate solicited the assistance of Michel Foucault, whose work (around the late 1970s) advanced the idea that power could not exist without resistance. This theory, when applied to governmental power & legitimacy, produces the argument that neither resistance nor legitimacy can be assumed. Both are dependent on the day-to-day decisions made by citizens & on representative media. As a result, it cannot be assumed that governmental power precludes resistance; for it is only through social organization that true resistance can emerge. K. A. Larsen

Intro -- Preface -- Table of contents -- 1 Concept of corporate culture -- 2 Dimensions and types of corporate culture -- 3 Total culture and subculture -- 4 Development of corporate culture -- 5 Transformation of corporate culture - factors and agents of change -- 6 Transformation of corporate culture - continued organizational and psychological process -- 7 Corporate philosophy and corporate vision -- 8 Product-market strategy -- 9 Organizational structure and personnel management system -- 10 Top management -- 11 International comparison of corporate culture -- Appendices -- References -- Index