Book reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Tools for Change and Progress: A Socio-Technical Approach to Business Process Re-engineering Enid Mumfordm, Geert Jan Beekman
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution Michael Hammer and James Champy
The Essence of Business Process Re-Engineering Joe Peppard, Philip Rowland
Software Assistance for Business Re-Engineering K Spurr, P Layzell, N Richards (Eds.)
Re-Engineering the Networked Enterprise Y Jayachandra with Raul Medina-More Gita J Melkote Fernando Flores
Reengineering Information Technology: Success Through Empowerment Stephen, Baxter, David Lisburn
Managers Divided: Organisation Politics and Information Technology Management David Knights, Fergus Murray
Business Process Reengineering: Breakpoint Strategies for Market Dominance Henry J. Johansson, Patrick McHugh, A. John Pendlebury & William A. Wheeler III
Beyond Business Process Reengineering: Towards the Holonic Enterprise Patrick McHugh, Giorgio Merli & William A. Wheeler III     

Book Reviews

Long Waves in the World Economy. Christopher Freeman (Ed.), Frances Pinter (Publishers), 1983.
Man and Information Technology: towards friendlier systems. Edited by J. H. F. van Apeldoorn.
The Industrial Research Institute of New York has published, at $20, a volume of papers on Project Management selected from Research Management
Technologies and Markets , by J. J. Verschuur, IEEE Management of Technology Series 1, Peter Peregrinus Ltd.     

Recent Publications

Books reviewed:
David Bacon, The Children of NAFTA.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know About America's Economic Future.
Pablo J. Boczkowski, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers.
Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane, The Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market.
Dominque Foray, The Economics of Knowledge.
Martin Campbell-Kelly, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry.
Rick Fantasia and Kim Voss, Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement.
Brian K. Obach, Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground.
Chris Rhomberg, No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland.
Daniel Cohen, Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age.
Steven Henry Lopez, Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movement.
Bruce Sinclair ed., Technology and the African-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Case for Worker Co-ops, R. Oakeshott, Routledge and Kegan Paul
Socialism and Shop Floor Power, by A. Fox
Industrial Relations in the Coal Industry, by B. J. McCormick
Independent Collier: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered, edited by Royden Harrison
The Sweated Trades: Outwork in Nineteenth Century Britain, by Duncan Bythell
Domination, Legitimation and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth Century Working Class, by Francis Hearn
The Future with Microelectronics, by lann Barron and Ray Curnow
European Labour and Multinationals, by Paul J. Weinberg
The Politics of Information: Problems of Policy in Modern Media, by Anthony Smith
The Psychoanalysis of Organisations, by Robert de Board
The Politics of the Firm, by Leonard Tivey, Martin Robertson     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Shop floor bargaining and the state: Historical and comparative perspectives, edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin The Politics of the West German Trade Unions, Strategies of class and interest representation in growth and crisis, by Andrei S. Markovits The Development of Trade Unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880–1914, by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Hans-Gerhard Husung (eds.). The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany, by M. Maurice, F. Sellier and J. J. Silvestre The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing. The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain, by Samuel Cohn Sex and the Workplace, by Barbara A. Gutek Employee Consultation and Information in Multinational Corporations, edited by J. Vandamme Militant Managers: Managerial Unionism and Industrial Relations, by Greg Bamber Redundancy and Recession: restructuring the regions?, edited by Mike Danson People and Chips: The Human Implications of Information Technology, by Christopher Rowe Technology and Work: East-West Comparison, edited by Peter Grootings The Future Impact of Automation on Workers, by Wassily Leontieff and Faye Duchin Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change, by W. W. Daniel     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
R. Woodhead and J. McCuish, Thomas Telford., Achieving Results: How to Create Value
Grazia D. Santangelo, Innovation in Multinational Corporations in the Information Age: The Experience of the European ICT Industry
Charles Edquist, Edward Elgar, The Internet and Mobile Telecommunications Systems of Innovation
Takuji Hara, Edward Elgar, Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Processes of Drug Discovery and Development
Niko Marcel Waesche, Edward Elgar, Internet Entrepreneurship in Europe: Venture Failure and the Timing of Telecommunications Reform     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Policing Industrial Disputes: 1893–1985 , by Roger Geary
The Price of Industrial Labor , by J. E. Annable
The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms , edited by Frank H. Stephen
Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives , by R. Bean
Directors of Industry: The British Corporate Network 1904–1976 , by John Scott and Catherine Griff
Skilled Workers in the Class Structure , by Roger Penn
Capitalism, class conflict and the new middle class , by Bob Carter
Improving Industrial Relations - The Advisory Role of ACAS by Eric Armstrong and Rosemary Lucas
The Information Technology Revolution , edited by Tom Forester
A Textbook of Industrial Relations Management , by George Thomason
The Industrial Relations Position of Foreign-Owned Firms in Britain , by Peter J. Buckley and Peter Enderwick
Fighting Closures: De-industrialization and the Trade Unions, 1979–1983 , edited by Hugo Levie, Denis Gregory and Nick Lorentzen
Ballots and Union Democracy , by Roger Undy and Roderick Martin     

Book Reviews

Keith Grint and Steve Woolgarr, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization Paul Stewart (ed), Beyond Japanese Management: The End of Modern Times? R. Katz (ed), The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation D. Archibugi and J. Michie (eds), Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance P. Bloomfield, R. Coombs, D. Knights and D. Littler (eds), Information Technology and Organisations: Strategies, Network and Integration Bryn Jones, Forcing the Factory of the Future     

Collectivism,individualism, and outgroup cooperation in a segmented China

A consistent theme in cross-cultural management research is that collectivists are more cooperative than individualists. We use Hofstede's measure for individualism–collectivism and combine it with an experimental measure of cooperation to test this relationship in China. In contrast to the established paradigm, we find that groups with higher individualistic scores are more cooperative than those groups with higher collectivistic scores. We attribute these results to groups being composed of outgroup members. In addition, we find that subjects from the more developed coastal area are more individualistic and cooperative than are subjects from inland China.

Book reviews

Book review in this Article
Innovation, Entrepreneurs and Regional Development
The Challenge of New Technology
New Technology and the Process of Labour Regulation
Women and Information Technology
Computerising work; people, systems design and workplace relations
Benetton: Information Technology in Production and Distribution: a Case Study of the Innovative Potential of Traditional Sectors     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article
Innovation in Technology and Organization
Unpacking the Clothing Industry: Gender, Racism and Class in Production
Computer Systems Development: history, organisation and implementation
Envisioning A Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out
Computers, Jobs and Skills: The Industrial Relations of Technological Change
Developing Skills with Information Technology
Maintaining Information Systems in Organisations
Hostile Brothers: Competition and Closure in the European Electronics Industry     

Book reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Expertise and Innovation: Information Technology Strategies in the Financial Services Sector
Ethics of Information Management
Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience
Teleworking Explained
Time Pioneers: Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles
The Future of Industrial Relations
Enterprise Without Unions
The Electronic Eye: the rise of surveillance society
Managing Production—Engineering Change and Stability
Business Reengineering: The Survival Guide
ISO 9000—Quality Systems Handbook     

Book Reviews

Technical Insights, Inc. Annual report on research and development… 1982: the year that was… 1983: the year to come
Project Management
Industrial R&D Management—the modern issues
Trends in Information Transfer
Information Society, For Richer, For Poorer
Cybernetics and Systems Research     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
On Work and Leadership: A Selection of Lectures , Alistair Mutch
Innovation Policy in a Global Economy , Pamela Siler
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart , Paul Rosen     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Technology Transfer and Industrial Change in Europe, Paul Benneworth
From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Structures, Matthew Jones     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Unions, Wages and Inflation, by Daniel J.B. Mitchell.
Labor Unions and the Inequality of Earned Income, by John S. Pettengill.
The Economics ofthe Labour Market, edited by 2. Hornstein, J. Grice and A. Webb.
Equal Pay and Opportunities. A study of the implementation and effects of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts in 26 Organizations, by M.W. Snell, P. Glucklich and M. Povall.
Women and Low Pay, edited by Peter J. Sloane.
The Right to Strike, by L.J: Macfarlane.
The Znternational Labour Organisation, by Walter Galenson.
Forces of Change in Western Europe, by Neil W. Chamberlain.
Unions in American National Politics, by Graham K. Wilson.
Trade Unions, National Politics and Economic Management, by Jon Clark, Heinz Hartmann, Christoph Lau, and David Winchester.
Ideology and Shop-floor Industrial Reiations, by P.J. Armstrong, J.F.B. Goodman, and J.D. Hyman.
Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth Century London: John Cast and his Times. by I. J. Prothero.
Theories of Trade Unionism: A Sociology of Industrial Relations, by Michael Poole.
Sociology, Work and Indusrry, by Tony J. Watson.
New Patterns of Work Reform, by Bjorn Gustavsen and Gerry Hunnius.
Industrial Relations Training for Managers, by Chris Brewster and Stephen Connock.
Practical Participation and Involvement, 1. Communication in Practice, Published by the Institute of Personnel Management.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Mast Uncommon Jacksonians, the Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement by Edward Pessen.
The Slavic Community on Strike, Immigrant Labor in Pennsylvania Anthracite by Victor Greene.
A Century of Labour-Management Relations at McCormick and International Harvester by Robert Ozonne.
Radical Politics and Canadian Labour by Martin Robin.
The Origin and Evolution of the I.L.O. and its Role in the World Community by David A. Morse.
Problems of Equal Pay by G. J. Mepham.
Industrial Relations in Construciton by W. S. Hilton.
Productivity Agreements and Wage Systems by D. T. B. North and G. Buckingham.
Productivity Bargaining and Industrial Change by N. Stettner.
Productivity Bargaining and the Engineering Industry by E. J. Roberston.
Labour In the South by F. Ray Marshall.
Critical Issues in Labor: Text and Readings by Max S. Wortman, Jr.
Labour Relations by Arthur A. Slonae and Fred Witney.
Manpower Planning: a Bibliogrphy edited by C. G. Lewis.
Shop Steward in British Industry by. J. F. B. Goodman and T. G. Whittingham.
Personnela Administration and Industrial Relations by J. Valerie Grant and G. J. Smith.
An Occupation in Conflict: A Study of the Personnel Manager by George Ritzer and Harrison M. Trice.
Immigrants in Industry by Sheila Patterson.
The Employment of Young Workers by Nancy B. Keene.
Enterprise Planning for Change by D. Wedderburn.
Man-in-Organizaiton: Essays by F. J. Roethlisberger.
Group Dynamics by d. Cartwright and A. Zander.
Experiences in Groups and Other Papers by W. R. Bion.
Studies in Accouting for Mangement Decision edited by A. M. Bourn.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng (Eds.)
Flexible Manufacturing Technologies and International Competitiveness Joseph Tidd
Case Studies in Information Technology, People and Organizations Karen Legge
Reshaping Work: The Cadbury Experience Chris Smith, John Child and Mike Rowlinson     

Knowledge management in technology-focused firms in emerging economies: Caveats on capabilities,networks, and real options

In mature economies, technology-focused industries and the management of knowledge are widely viewed as critical to success. Increasingly, in emerging economies technology-focused industries and the management of knowledge are also viewed as important. To date, however, little is known about such activities in emerging economies. Particularly, it is not understood how knowledge management can impact efforts for corporate renewal in such environments. The literatures of the resource-based view of the firm, social capital/network theory, and real options theory are vital to providing insights for technology-focused industries and the management of knowledge in mature economies. In this paper we focus on the caveats when applying such theoretical foundations to emerging economies. To illustrate these issues we will draw on the largest emergent economy in the world, China.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Developments in the Management of Human Resources by John Storey Business Performance in the Retail Sector: The Experience of the John Lewis Partnership by Keith Bradley and Simon Taylor Incentive Pay: Impact and Evolution by Michael Cannell and Stephen Wood Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions by Lowell Turner Labour Markets under Trade Unionism by John Pencavel Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach by T. J. Devine and N. M. Kiefer Policing the Workshy: Benefit Control, the Labour Market and the Unemployed by Alex Bryson and John Jacobs Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration edited by Frank Pyke and Werner Sengenberger The Market and Beyond: Co-operation and Competition in Information Technology Development in the Japanese System by Martin Fransman Workplace Industrial Relations; Australian Case Studies edited by Russell Lansbury and Duncan McDonald The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party by Lewis Minkin Forged in Fire: The History of the Fire Brigades Union edited by Victor Bailey. Lawrence & Wishart Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes edited by Deborah M. Kolb and Jean M. Bartunek The Sociology of Organizations: Themes, Perspectives and Prospects by Michael I. Reed. Harvester Wheatsheaf Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845–1990: Linkages between Product and Labor Markets by George H. Hildebrand and Garth L. Mangum