The competition paradigm: America's romance with conflict, contest, and commerce
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 237 S. |
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Preface xi
1 Introducing the Competition Paradigm 1
The Competition Paradigm: What Is It? 3
A Spiral of Destructive Competition: An Overview 5
All Forms of Competition Are Not the Same:
Defining Competition 8
Reconsidering the Competition Paradigm 10
2 The Biology of Competition, Stress, and
Individual Health Status 17
Competition Increases Stress 17
Stress Has Consequences for Health Status: How It Works 19
Individual Differences to Stress Reactions 23
Life Experience 23
Personality and Perception 24
Gender 24
Context: Work Environment 25
Why It Matters: Biology and a Spiral of Competition 26
3 Competition s Mixed Results: Individuals and Groups 39
General Results: Competition Fails to Improve the Quantity
and Quality of Production 40
Qualifying Competition s Impact 41
It Depends on What You re Trying to Do
and What Is Being Produced 42
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viii Contents
The Unit of Production and Competition 43
People Are Different: Individual Characteristics
and Competition 44
The Psychosocial and Behavioral Effects of Competition 46
A Negative Spiral of Individual Competition 47
Psychopathology and Competition 49
Accounting for the Unexpected 52
4 Competition Can Be Counterproductive for Organizations 63
Competition Shapes Organizational Structure and Behavior,
but the Effects on Productivity Are Mixed 64
Centralized Power—Decentralized Accountability 64
Change for the Sake of Change Alone? Layoffs, Downsizing,
Outsourcing, and the Erosion of Job Benefits 65
And Government Organizations Change, Too 69
Does It Really Make Sense for Organizations to Encourage
Internal Competition? 70
The Downside of Intense Competition for Organizations 74
Reduced Innovation 74
Diminished Quality 75
Decreased Safety 77
Bankruptcy: Organizational Mortality Is on the Rise 79
Loss of Trust and Lower Morale in the Workplace 80
Fraud, Mistakes, and Cover Ups 82
What Happened to Business Ethics? 85
A Self Reinforcing Spiral of Competition at the
Organizational Level 88
5 How and When Organizations Avoid Competition 105
Muddling Through—Organizations Respond to
Intense Competition 107
Merging, Consolidating, Acquiring the Competition,
and Organizing for Oligopoly 107
Finding a Niche 110
Filing Patents and Copyrights 111
Opposing and Supporting Antitrust Laws 112
Cooperating with One s Competitors 115
Requiring Protective Regulation 118
What Do We Do in Emergencies? Testing Discourse 122
6 The High Cost of Competition at the Global Level for Society,
Nation, and Culture 137
Much Stability and Some Change in National Competitiveness 138
The Costs and Benefits of Competition for Society 141
Contents ix
Competition and Societal Inequality in the
Industrialized Countries 142
Inequality Is on the Increase: Is Too Much Competition
Part of the Problem? 145
Resolving Different Interpretations: A Hypothesis 147
Destructive Competition and Societal Inequality Have
Population Health Consequences 148
Intense Competition Jeopardizes Trust and Social Capital
in the Community and Society 150
Competition, Inequality, and the Negative Social Environment 153
A Spiral of Self Reinforcing Destructive Competition
at the Societal Level 155
Going Global: Sharing an Inadequate Paradigm 157
7 The Need for Paradigm Change and Why It Is So Slow
in Coming 173
Why Paradigm Change Is Best for All 174
The Power of a Paradigm: Why No Change? 177
Focusing on the Short Term Rather Than the Long Term 178
The Costs of Destructive Competition Are Indirect
Rather Than Direct 179
An Oversimplified Understanding of U.S. Success:
Some Alternative Explanations 180
The Forces for Paradigm Change 182
The Vulnerability Problem 185
8 Changing the Competition Paradigm and Restoring Balance 193
Public and Private Policy for Constructive and
Appropriate Competition 194
Policy for Appropriate and Effective Competition 194
Prioritizing Policy Change: Fundamental, Ameliorative,
o r Reinfo rcing Policy 196
Knowledge Based Policy 197
Policy That Is Best for All: Who Is the All? 198
An Example: Using Knowledge Based Policy That Is Best for All
to Control Competition Related Inequality 200
Regulation to Manage Destructive Competition 202
Public Support for Regulation 204
Regulation as Authentically Competition Neutral 205
Responsible Regulation and the Role of Stewardship:
Creating the Conditions for Constructive Competition 207
Regulation: A Multidimensional View in a Global Environment 209
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Make Provision for Exceptions 211
Competition Paradigm as Destiny or Diversion 212
Appendix 1: Data for Figure 6.2: Change Score Calculations
for Each Country 223
Appendix 2: Methodology 225
Index 229
About the Author 237
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