Appropriate or Underdeveloped Technology? (Wiley Medical Publication) - Softcover

Emmanuel, Arghiri

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9780471104674: Appropriate or Underdeveloped Technology? (Wiley Medical Publication)

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ISBN 10: 0471104671 ISBN 13: 9780471104674

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1982

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WILEY/IRM SERIES ON MULTINATIONALS

Consulting Editor: Dr Michel Ghertman, Director, IRM

Multinationals!..

'Multinationals are using their economic strength to consolidate the power and wealth of a few at the expense of many!'

- 'As the most advanced form of enterprise, multinationals are the favoured and indispensible driving forces behind social progress!'

The Wiley/IRM Series on Multinationals aims to dispel such cliches. It aims to take the reader beyond the simplistic concepts of good and evil and to study a wider range of subjects than those remote topics only of interest to a few specialists.

Multinationals play their part in changing the patterns of our lives; how we eat, dress, look after and amuse ourselves and probably-how we think!

It seems important therefore to understand the characteristics of such companies whether big or small, private or public-and to learn about their complexity, their methods and ways of working, their relations with unions, governments and other social agents. It also seems vital to highlight both the present and future implications of the multinational phenomenon.

The IRM's research is undertaken independently by academics from all over the world who are chosen for their ability to look at multinationals from the viewpoint of various disciplines; economic, sociological, psychological, political, and so on. Strict academic surveillance is maintained, again independent from the IRM, by referees who are specialists in the particular field concerned.

As an institute for research and information, the IRM aims not only to promote and finance research on original topics, but also to make its findings available to a wide audience. Such information should be of interest to every individual and to every organisation concerned in the changing pattern of our society-and multinationals are certainly one of the factors involved.

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