Ideology and National Competitiveness; An Analysis of Nine Countries
Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 1987. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 350, [4] pages. Preface. Introduction. Contributors. Notes. Index. Several small tears, and some creasing to dust jacket edges. Ink name previous owner, as well as the date, are written in ink on front free endpaper. Date written in ink on title page. Other ink makes and comments noted. Topics covered include France: Ideological Divisions and the Global Reality; Germany: Competing Communitarianisms; The United States: The Costs of Ambivalence; Japan: Adaptive Communitarianism; Statism and Familism on Taiwan; Korea; Order and Progress in Brazil; Revolution and Flexibility in Mexico; and Conclusion. The authors do not attempt to describe the ideal society. Rather, they suggest that successful communities are those that are effective at managing ideological change and contradictions by clarifying goals and, ultimately, by achieving. Perhaps most important to the business person or policymaker is the assertion that effective managers must understand the ideological implications of their actions. More