{"product_id":"the-collapse-of-the-american-robert-r-locke-9780198774068","title":"The Collapse of the American Management Mystique","description":"This is a book on the history and \"mystique\" of American management--its development and diffusion to other countries, and its subsequent eclipse by Japanese and German approaches.\u003cbr\u003e In this work, Robert Locke traces the evolution of American management in the postwar era--the phenomenon once described by Churchill as that \"clear cut, logical, mass production style of thought.\" He goes on to discuss in detail the views of such business writers as Chandler, Reich, Senge, and Deming. But the force of his critique rests on a thorough examination of alternative forms of management that grew up in West Germany and Japan during the past decades. He argues that these alternative management forms have done a better job managing capitalist economies since the 1970s than has American managerialism.\u003cbr\u003e With an unusually wide-ranging knowledge of management and business thinking in the United States, Germany, and Japan, and the historian's ability to stand back and take the longer view, Locke has written a powerfully argued and challenging book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert R. Locke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198774060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198774068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.34w x 1.00d","brand":"Robert R. Locke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47420221554943,"sku":"9780198774068","price":71.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fb33d53-ea9f-4421-82d4-c18b9b88a862.jpg?v=1761525902","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-collapse-of-the-american-robert-r-locke-9780198774068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}