About the Book
Sumantra Ghoshal on Management represents Ghoshal’s twenty-year intellectual odyssey to challenge the underpinnings of management thought; to expose, rework and replace the foundation stones of management thinking. Exploring his key ideas, and reflecting his genius for collaboration along the way, this book shows how he had become a force for good in the world of management
Table of Contents:
Introduction: A force for good
1. Managing Across Borders: New concepts and perspectives on the Multinational Corporation
C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, "Managing Across Borders; The New Strategic Requirements", Sloan Management Review, Summer 1987.
C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, "Managing Across Borders: The New Organizational Responses", Sloan Management Review, Fall 1987.
S. Ghoshal and C.A. Bartlett, "The Multinational Corporation as an Interorganizational Network", Academy of Management Review, October 1990.
S. Ghoshal and N. Nohria, "Internal Differentiation within Multinational Corporations", Strategic Management Journal, vol. 10, July-August, 1989.
2. The Individualised Corporation: Towards a managerial theory of the firm
S. Ghoshal and H. Mintzberg, "Diversification and Diversifact", California Management Review, vol 37, No. 1, Fall, 1994.
C.A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal, "Rebuilding Behavioral Context: Turn Process Reengineering into People Rejuvenation", Sloan Management Review, Fall, 1995.
Ghoshal and C.A. Bartlett, "Rebuilding Behavioral Context: A Blueprint for Corporate Renewal", Sloan Management Review, Winter, 1996.
S. Ghoshal and P. Moran, "Bad for Practice: A Critique of the Transaction Cost Theory", Academy of Management Review, January, 1996.
3. The new management agenda: Building social capital and unleashing organizational energy
J. Nahapiet and S. Ghoshal, "Social Capital, Intellectual Capital and the Organizational Advantage", Academy of Management Review, April, 1998.
Radical Performance improvement is possible. Chapter 1 of Managing Radical Change by S. Ghoshal, G. Piramal, and C.A. Bartlett. 2000. (Note: this paper will have to be edited to remove references to other chapters in the book; it needs to work as a stand-alone piece)
S. Ghoshal and L. Gratton, “Integrating the Enterprise”, Sloan Management Review, Fall 2002.
H. Bruch and S. Ghoshal, “Beware the Busy Manager”, Harvard Business Review, February 2002.
Commentary: Chris Bartlett, Gita Piramal, Lynda Gratton, Heike Bruch, Henry Mintzberg
About the Author :
Julian Birkinshaw, LBS lecturer and author of several books on leadership, entrepreneurship, and the effects of globalisation on corporate organization. Recent title, Leadership the Sven-Goran Erikksonn Way.
Dr Gita Piramal is the Managing Editor of The Smart Manager, India's first world class management magazine. Gita is also India's foremost business writer and business historian. A former journalist, she has worked with several leading publications world wide, but mostly with UK's Financial Times and India's Economic Times.She has written or contributed chapters to nine books, including Business Maharajas, Business Legends, Managing Radical Change and World Class in India. Each of her books have promptly shot into the best seller list. Gita recently received the Business Today Award for being one of India's 25 most powerful women in 2004. She also received the Scholar of the Year 2004 award from Ness Wadia College, Pune
Review :
"Ghoshal not only had interesting ideas; he expressed them interestingly. This collection reflects his eagerness to send those ideas to a wider; it deserves to find the audience he sought." - Economist, June 2005
