I think the following may be of relatively widespread interest. Please
pardon me if I am duplicating what has already been said - US West is 6
1/2 weeks late in initiating service at my new residence (I connect
intermittently chez friends) and I know there are 100s of notes which have
so far eluded me.
CHRIS ARGYRIS AND DONALD A. SCHON. ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING II: THEORY,
METHOD, AND PRACTICE. Addison-Wesley Series on Organizational
Development. 1996.
Haven't read this yet, but it comes highly recommended by one
of my PhD committee members at Cornell. The 8-page Preface is a
great introduction to the field and its development. The book
has 4 Parts: I. An Introduction to Organizational Learning,
II. Defensive Reasoning and the Theoretical Framework that
Explains It, III. Inquiry-Enhancing Intervention and Its
Theoretical Basis, and IV. Strengths and Weaknesses of
Consultation and Research in the Field of Organizational
Learning.
ROBERT FLOOD AND NORMA ROMM. DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT. Wylie, Chichester,
1996. (Flood also publishes the journal SYSTEMS PRACTICE)
Haven't received this yet - same Cornell prof's suggestion.
MANUEL CASTELLS. THE RISE OF THE NETWORK SOCIETY - THE INFORMATION AGE:
ECONOMY, SOCIETY AND CULTURE. VOLUME I. Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
This is an uncommonly sharply argued and richly documented
480 pages. It does well what its title promises, and provides
the most careful investigations I have seen of some of the
most important issues, including the "productivity paradox".
Volumes II and III, to be published this year, are II. The Power
of Identity (Our lives, our world), and III. End of Millenium
(Social theory and processes of historical transformation ...).
Regards, Debbie Roth <dr@sprintmail.com>.
--Debbie Roth <dr@sprintmail.com>
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