Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART ONE: The Knowledge Technologies; Chapter 1. The End of Continuity; Chapter 2. The New Industries and their Dynamics; THE AGEING 'MODERN' INDUSTRIES; WHAT' S ON THE HORIZON?; THE NEW KNOWLEDGE BASE; Chapter 3. The New Entrepreneur; THE DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGY; THE DYNAMICS OF THE MARKET; THE INNOVATIVE ORGANIZATION; Chapter 4. The New Economic Policies; THE WRONG TAX INCENTIVES; FOCUS ON WORLD ECONOMY; PART TWO: From International to World Economy.
  • Chapter 5. The Global Shopping CentreGLOBAL MONEY AND CREDIT; EMBRYO INSTITUTIONS; Chapter 6. Making the Poor Productive; WHAT WILL NOT WORK; -AND WHAT MIGHT WORK; Chapter 7. Beyond the 'New Economics'; WORLD ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, AND THE MACRO-ECONOMY; MACRO-ECONOMY AND MICRO-ECONOMY; WHAT WE NEED; PART THREE: A Society of Organizations; Chapter 8. The New Pluralism; THE SYMBIOSIS OF ORGANIZATIONS; THE NEED FOR THEORY; Chapter 9. Towards a Theory of Organizations; MAKING ORGANIZATION PERFORM; ORGANIZATION AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE; THE LEGITIMACY OF ORGANIZATIONS.
  • Chapter 10. The Sickness of GovernmentWHAT GOVERNMENT CANNOT DO;
  • AND WHAT IT COULD BE; Chapter 11. How Can the Individual Survive?; THE BURDEN OF DECISION; THE SPHERES OF FREEDOM; ORGANIZATION AS INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY; PART FOUR: The Knowledge Society; Chapter 12. The Knowledge Economy; THE EMERGENCE OF KNOWLEDGE WORK; Chapter 13. Work and Worker in the Knowledge Society; KNOWLEDGE WORKER AND WORKING-LIFE SPAN; THE PROBLEMS OF THE TRANSITION; Chapter 14. Has Success Spoil tthe Schools?; WHAT IS SCHOOL FOR?; THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF EDUCATION; Chapter 15. The New Learning and the New Teaching.
  • Chapter 16. The Politics of KnowledgeTHE KNOWLEDGE BASE; THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 17. Does Knowledge Have a Future?; Conclusion; Index.