The Firm as a Collaborative Community: Reconstructing Trust in the Knowledge Economy

by Charles C. Heckscher and Paul S. Adler

Book Overview

This volume explores the changing nature of community in modern corporations. Community within and between firms - the fabric of trust so essential to contemporary business - has long been based on loyalty. This loyalty has been largely destroyed by three decades of economic turbulence, downsizing, and restructuring. Yet community is more important than ever in an increasingly complex, knowledge-intensive economy. The thesis of this volume is that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199286043
• ISBN13: 9780199286041
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"