This book examines some of the themes that currently concern both organizations as a science as well as the firm as a dynamic behavioural entity. As we enter a new century, virtually all informed participants and observers of the contemporary organizational scene agree that big changes are underway. This book describes the many and varied changes including increasing inter-dependence, weakening of nation-state boundaries, the rate of technical change, increasing reliance on knowledge systems and workers, the emergence of new forms and changing ties between workers and firms.

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MARCELLO BASILI Università di Siena, Italy ANDREAS BERGKNAPP Business Sciences, University of Augsburg, Germany FRANCESCO CABRAS Università di Cagliari, Italy GIAN CARLO CAINARCA Universita di Genova, Italy LORENZO CASELLI Universita di Genova, Italy ANNALISA CRISTINI Università di Bergamo, Italy CRISTINA DURANTI Università di Firenze, Italy MAURIZIO FRANZINI Università La Sapienza, Italy ALESSANDRO GAJ Università di Bergamo, Italy ANNA GRANDORI Università Boccini, Italy ERENESTINA GIUDICI Università di Cagliari, Italy ANNETTE B. C. KILLMER University of California, USA SANDRINE LABORY Università di Bergamo, Italy SILVIA MASSA Universita di Genova, Italy CATHERINE A. RAMUS University of California, USA MASSIMILIANO MAZZANTI Università di Ferrara, Italy PAOLO PINI Università di Ferrara, Italy W. RICHARD SCOTT Stanford Unioversity, USA SILVANO TAGLIAGAMBE Università di Sassari, Italy STEFANIA TESTA Universita di Genova, Italy ERMANNO TORTIA Università di Trento, Italy SABINE URBAN Robert Schuman University, France

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Organizations Between Systemic and Epistemolgical Complexities. An Introduction; R.Leoni & G.Usai Organizing for a New Century; W.R.Scott The Changing Core of Organization and Organization Theory: From Contingency to Combinative; A.Grandori Ethics in Organization: Theory and Practice; L.Caselli Ethics in Organization: Fundamental Problems, Trivial Applications? S.Urban Motivation Theory Revisited: A Theoretical Framework for Peripheral Tasks; A.B.C.Killmer & C.A.Ramus Emotions in Organizations. The Blind Spot of Organizational Theories; A.Bergknapp Networks, Trust and Institutional Complementarities; M.Basili, C.Duranti & M.Franzini Technology-in-Practice: New Insight into Data Warehouse Adoption; G.C.Cainarca, S.Massa & S.Testa Organizational Innovations, Human Resoucres and Industrial Relations; M.Mazzanti, P.Pini & E.Tortia Dynamic Organizational Capabilities: A Unifying Framework for New Work Practices, Product Innovation and Competences Formation; A.Cristini, A.Gaj, S.Labory & R.Leoni The Evaluation of Effectiveness as a Matrix of Organizational Syuccess; G.Usai, F.Cabras & E.Giudici Organizations and Work in the 21st Century: Global, European, State and Logical Issues Discussed; S.Tagliagambe