It is increasingly apparent that "objective" market forces are not, alone, sufficient to account for the strategies that firms adopt. The firm also has complex internal hierarchies of managers, and understanding its behaviour depends crucially on identifying and understanding these individuals. Offering a new perspective, by regarding the firm as a structure or framework over which managers scramble to make their careers, this book traces the connections between the way the firm is organized and has grown, and the structure of career opportunities which results. A new theoretical perspective is created which shows how firms develop distinctive career cultures and what these mean for managers building their careers within them. This brings out the dynamic relationship between the form and strategies of the firm and the way they shape, and are shaped by, individual activity. The book contains important messages about the forces at work shaping managerial careers, both for executives who manage staff and for the managers themselves.
- ISBN10 0631158596
- ISBN13 9780631158592
- Publish Date 13 July 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 January 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English