’Built to Last‘: Paradigm or Panacea?
This article describes the prescriptive model of the ’visionary company‘proposed by Collins and Porras in their influential 1994 study ’Built toLast‘. The article notes the U.S. bias of this model; and comments on theuniversalistic contention of the authors that ’the basic dynamics of being avisiona...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1997
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International journal of value-based management
Year: 1997, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-53 |
| Further subjects: | B
qualification
B Evaluation B visionary company B cross-cultural context B cross-cultural overview B universalistic assumption |
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| Summary: | This article describes the prescriptive model of the ’visionary company‘proposed by Collins and Porras in their influential 1994 study ’Built toLast‘. The article notes the U.S. bias of this model; and comments on theuniversalistic contention of the authors that ’the basic dynamics of being avisionary company will hold up across cultures and nationalities‘. Thearticle evaluates and qualifies the universalistic propositions of Collinsand Porras, and places the ’Built to Last‘ study in a wider internationaland cross-cultural context. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8528 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of value-based management
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1007791717263 |