Bowen, Kent, Kim Clark, Charles Holloway, &
Steven Wheelwright, eds. The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven
Keys to Corporate Renewal Through Successful Product and Process
Development
See note below under Bibliographic References.
VideoBridge International. A commercial communication company specializing in links to post-Cold-War Russia illustrates the characteristics of the postmodern, global business assemblage.
Kroker and Weinstein, The Political Economy of Virtual Reality
Dan Schubert, Postmodern Culture, Global Capitalism,
and Democratic Action
The Couch-Stone Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
on 10-13 April 1997 dealt with the emerging culture accompanying the evolution
of the global economy.
Bowen, Kent, Kim Clark, Charles Holloway, &
Steven Wheelwright, eds. The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Seven
Keys to Corporate Renewal Through Successful Product and Process
Development
This is the outcome of 26 people from nine business and academic institutions,
collaborating in an effort to define what approaches result in effective
product and process development.
Steven Goldman et al, Agile Competitors and
Virtual Organizations
In the continuous state of change and uncertainty in postmodernity,
corporations have changed from hierarchical, self-contained entities in order
to cope successfully with agile competition. A keynote of this change is that
they can cooperate with competitors through virtual organizations that require
little capital investment and can come and go with the coming and going of
market demand.
Peter Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society
A basic change in society and in the nation state has led to the privileging of
knowledge as the primary economic value. This leads to a different kind of
productivity in ways that are still coming into focus.
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
The political and economic transformation of late twentieth-century capitalism
rendered obsolete the "Fordist" model of capital accumulation and led to
"flexible accumulation." Corporate structure and behavior altered
accordingly.
Corporate Enterprise as Postmodern Practice, an
essay from THE PROGRAMME.
In an uncertain, ever-changing evironment, with a newly agile style of
operating, postmodern corporations are less mediated by the state and less
likely, short-term, to contribute direct solutions to social problems that
emerge from the conditons of postmodernity.
The Corporate Annual Report, an essay from THE
PROGRAMME.
An artifact of the age of agile competition, the corporate annual report
reflects global, postmodern corporate enterprise. The characteristics of
agility are exemplified in the reports of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., and
Coherent Communications Systems Corporation.