10Managing a Unified World

Global Order out of Local Institutions

While previous chapters have focused on the United States, similar economic transitions are under way in other countries throughout the world. East Europe, Russia, and China are struggling to make market systems work, and the European Union is beginning to dismantle its welfare state. Even Japan, once thought to be invincible, is being forced to free its economy from overregulation and social conformity.

Just as the New Management uses a wholistic perspective to view organizations as complete socioeconomic systems, these global changes can be best understood by seeing the Earth as a whole system in its own right. Today, a fragmented world is coming together as the electrifying ...

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