Strategic Pragmatism: The Culture of Singapore's Economics Development Board

by Edgar C. Schein and Edgar H. Schein

Book Overview

foreword by Lester Thurow Per capita income in Singapore has gone from $500 to more than $20,000 in a little over twenty-five years. Edgar Schein, a social psychologist with a long and celebrated research interest in organizational studies, examines the cultural history of the key intstitution that spawned this economic miracle. Through interviews and full access to Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB), Schein shows how economic development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534045
• ISBN13: 9780262534048
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher