"'Values-based organizations' are institutions, communities and NGOs which are inspired by a mission or a vocation - for these groups it is their ideals which are most important to them and economics does not have a way to incorporate that into its analysis. This book provides a short...

Preface to fifth edition -- Foreword -- Defining the structure of culture -- How to define culture in general -- How to describe and analyze the three levels of culture -- A young and growing u.s. engineering organization -- A mature swiss-german chemical organization -- A developmental...