Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Capitalist-Socialist Dialogue on Organizational Behaviour / Laaksonen, Oiva -- Part I. Perspectives -- 1. Paradigms and Understandings in Comparative Organizational Research / Bate, Paul / Child, John -- 2. Towards Socialist-Capitalist Comparisons of the Organizational Problem / Wood, Stephen -- 3. Four Structural Problems of the Modern Enterprise: Similarities and Differences in Capitalist and Socialist Countries / Zamfir, Cătălin -- 4. Information Technology and Organizational Choice / Sydow, Jörg -- Part II. Innovation and the Organization -- 5. Strategic Management of Innovation in Large Czechoslovak Firms / Vodáček, Leo -- 6. Attitudes and Motivation of Production Managers in the Management of Technological Innovation / Domozetov, Christo -- 7. New Technology and New Supervisory Roles in U.K. Manufacturing Industry / Rothwell, Sheila -- 8. Organizations and the Computer Culture: The Mismanagement of Meaning? / Hennestad, Bjern W. -- Part III. Innovation and the Social Environment -- 9. Variants of the Socialist Economic Management System in Eastern Europe / Gliński, Bohdan -- 10. The Social Frame of Innovation: The Example of Yugoslavia / Čengić, Drago -- 11. Industrial Relations and High Technology: The Transformation of Telecommunications Through Deregulation / Eckel, Russel -- 12. Technical Innovation and Economic Reform in Socialist Economies with Special Reference to China / Lockett, Martin -- 13. Managerial Practices and Patterns of Employee Behaviour in the Soviet Enterprise / Grancelli, Bruno -- 14. “Democracy” in Worker-Owned Enterprises: The U. S. Experience / Keil, Thomas J. -- The Authors