Social Development: A New Role for the Organizational Sciences

by Pradip N. Khandwalla (Editor)

How can strategic organizations operate more effectively? How can organizations be designed for reducing poverty? What is effective management of technologies acquired or developed by Third World organizations? How can the process of formulating and implementing public policies be made more effective? How can organizational change technology be utilized for faster social and economic development? These timely and important questions are all discussed in this comprehensive compilation of papers, drawn from the 1986/1987 International Conference on Organizational and Behavioural Perspectives for Social Development. Khandwalla argues that a paradigm shiftùfrom excessive concerns with Western academic fads and organizational issues to behavior-related issues faced by strategic Third World organizations charged with developmental mission--is needed in the organizational and behavioral sciences. In this comprehensive volume he skillfully incorporates numerous articles which together integrate concepts, models, and views on how organizational and behavioral sciences can enhance the socio-economic development of poor societies. This volume is of particular interest to professionals and academics in organization and management, organizational psychology, economics,development, and sociology

384 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1989