Organizational Strategy and Technological Adaptation to Global Change

BOB REID previously Chairman of London Electricity, Chairman of the British Railways Board and Chairman and Chief Executive of Shell UK Limited GORDON REDDING Affiliate Professor of Asia Business Schools, INSEAD, France LETHOS HETHY Political Secretary of State for Labour, Hungary DEREK CHANNON Professor of Management, Imperial College, London ROBIN MATTHEWS Professor of International Business Policy, Kingston University Business School RICHARD BROWN Visiting Fellow at Durham University Business School ROLAND KAYE Head of the Centre for Information and Innovation, Open University Business School STEPHEN LITTLE Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Information Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University REZA SALAMI has a doctorate from City University on International Technology transfer to the industrialization of developing and newly developed countries LAWRENCE REAVILL Lecturer, Department of Management Systems and Information, City University Business School BOB RITCHIE Head ofBusiness and Management Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University LEE SHUANG Senior Lecturer, Strategy and Enterprise Division, Staffordshire University Business School RICHARD HUDSON-DAVIES Lecturer in Marketing, Business and Management Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University WILL WILLIAMS Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Glamorgan Business School JONATHAN WINTERTON Professor of Education, Employment and Human Resource Development, Napier University & Director of the Institute of Education, Employment and Human Resource Development IAN TAPLIN Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Research Associate, Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, ANDREI KUZNETSOV Senior Lecturer in International Business, Manchester Metropolitan University OLGA KUZNETSOV Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University PAUL ILES Littlewood's Professor of Human Resource Development, Liverpool Business School PAROMIJIT HAYERS PhD student, Liverpool Centre for Human Resource Development, Liverpool Business School THOMAS STEGER Assistant at the Department of Organization, Technical UNiversity Chemnitz-Zwickau (Germany) TOM LUPTON previously Head of Department of Management, Birmingham CAT (Aston University) GYORGY KAUCSEK Head of Department for Working Conditions, Institute of Labour Research, Hungary EVA HRABITOVA Lecturer, University of Economics, Prague.

• Introduction SECTION 1: AN OVERVIEW OF KEY ISSUES IN GLOBAL CHANGE An Industrialist's View of Global Change; B. Reid The Changing Business Scene in Pacific Asia; G. Redding The Changing Business Scene in Central and Eastern Europe; L. Hethy SECTION 2: STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE Dinosaurs versus Dragons: Should Strategic Management Theory Redirect its Focus to the East?; D.F. Channon Global Strategy and Repeated Games; R. Matthews Winners and Losers in the West: Ranking by Adjustment Capacity; R. Brown Restructuring Strategies: Global Pressures, Local Responses; I. Taplin & J. Winterton SECTION 3: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND GLOBAL CHANGE Setting Standards: Strategies for Building Global Business Systems; R. Kaye & S. Little The Appropriate Policies for a Successful International Technology Transfer to Less Developed Countries; R. Salami & L.P. Reavill Technological Change: the Impact of Different Cultures, Institutional Frameworks and Organizational Imperatives; R.L. Ritchie, L. Zhuang, R. Hudson-Davies & W. Williams SECTION 4: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Privatization, Shareholding and Efficiency Arguments; A. Kuznetsov & O. Kuznetsov Enhancing Global Learning and Change in Multicultural Organizations through Valuing Diversity in Project Teams; P. Iles & P. Hayers Patterns of Change: How People in an East German Organization are Coping with the Transformation Process; T. Steger Aspects of the Transition to the Market Economy in the Czech Republic and Hungary; T. Lupton, G. Kauscek, E. Hrabitova & R. Thorpe