[...]... change (Lichtenstein, 2000); transformative leadership (Astin and Astin, 2001; Bass, 1985; Bemis and Nanus, 1985); transformative mediation (Bush and Folger, 1994); transformative justice (Morris, 1994); transformative learning (Mezirow, 1991); transformative knowledge (Vargas, 1987); and transformative technology (Brent, 1991) Here, we review the core insights of the transformative perspective with... 2002 THE TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATION Part I Asian Context 21 THE TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATION 23 Concepts and Case Studies in the Indian Context 2 The Transformative Organization The Coates of India Story1 Vipin Gupta l Kumkum Mukherjee l Roma Puri In recent years, the transformative perspective has gained popularity among social scientists which is indicated by the rash of new concepts such as transformative. .. work I remain indebted to my Guru Param Siddh Kartar Singh Yadavji for His spiritual and divine blessings Vipin Gupta February 24, 2003 Philadelphia AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 1 1 An Introduction to Transformative Organizations Vipin Gupta India and the other new economies in Asia and around the world are going through a period of unprecedented crisis In the aftermath of 9/11, high-profile... Cultures, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies, CA: Sage Publications Inglehart, R (1997) Modernization and Post-Modernization NJ: Princeton University Press Lewin, K (1945) The research center for group dynamics at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Sociometry, 8, 126–136 AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 19 Pattanayak, B & V Gupta (eds.) (2002) Creating Performing Organizations: ... overall performance and to pursue development initiatives where the norms for the targeted domain may be fulfilled We identify the firms that demonstrate a focus on transformative perspective as transformative organizations In other words, the transformative perspective helps firms to transcend the paradox of performance, identified by Meyer and Gupta (1994), that an emphasis on some measures of performance... Practices for Organizations in India in Chapter 7 Interestingly, after the liberalization that started in 1991, many Indian organizations have shown remarkable capabilities to offer high quality services at competitive prices in several knowledge-driven service sectors Compensation and rewards systems must be transformed in congruence with the strategic intent of these new knowledge-driven organizations. .. compensation professionals to design and deliver compensation and rewards systems to help their organizations develop dynamic capabilities In Chapter 8, David Watkins and Nitin Jain illustrate how in some cases a collaborative approach can help accelerate or bypass the time and resource 10 TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS consuming sequential approach to developing the knowledge for globalization work in... another sort of herd behavior like the unrelated diversification of Korean chaebols in the past An illustration of the transformative process of crafting a long-term perspective for restructuring, and the resulting benefits is offered by Jifu Wang AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 11 and William R Boulton in Chapter 11, Globalization of Market-driven State Enterprise: CHN-CHN Ceramics... INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 15 Argentine Context in Chapter 20 On account of a lack of confidence in managerial intentions and intervention methodologies, new organizing principles, deriving from the Confucian, Northern European and Anglo models, have shown only limited success in the Argentine context Inferring from the illustrations of change programs in Argentine organizations, the... legacy of its past, AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORMATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 17 and the current age is interpreted in terms of what lies behind us, and how it relates to what lies ahead of us However, much of the discourse on postmodernism has focused on either deterministic or evolutionary processes, and there is little understanding of the strategic implications for the organizations Using a re-analysis of . Road 1 Olivers Yard, Thousand Oaks, California 913 20 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP Published by Tejeshwar Singh for Response Books, typeset in 10 /12 points Garamond by Innovative Processors, New. published in 2004 by Response Books A division of Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd B42, Panchsheel Enclave New Delhi 11 0 017 Sage Publications Inc. Sage Publications Ltd 2455 Teller Road 1 Olivers Yard, Thousand. Behaviour, 5. Industrial Management. I. Gupta, Vipin, 19 68 HG58.8.T698 658.4¢06dc22 2004 2003 017 028 ISBN: 07 619 98209 (US-HB) 81 78293 31 5 (India-HB) Production Team: Gargi Dasgupta, R.A.M.