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

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

Heckscher, Charles
Adler, Paul

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Business General

ISBN10: 0199286043
ISBN13: 9780199286041
Publisher: OUP UK
Published: Oct 11 2007
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.22 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 a new form of community is slowly emerging - one that is more flexible and wider in scope than the community of loyalty, and that transcends the limitations of both traditional Gemeinschaft and modern Gesellschaft. We call this form collaborative community.

The trend towards collaborative community is difficult to detect amidst the ferocious forces of market and bureaucratic rationalization. But close analysis of some of America's most successful corporations reveals three dimensions of the emerging form:

- a shared ethic of interdependent contribution: distinct from the uneasy mix of loyalty and individualism that prevailed for so long;

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