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225 D. AppendixTotal Quality Management and Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceThis is a sampling of total quality management studies citing Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and his Metaphysics of Quality.Baets, Walter R. Or gan i za tion al Learning and Knowledge Technologies in a Dynamic Environment (Norwell, MA, 1998)Barker, Tom. Leadership for Results (Milwaukee: American Society for Quality, Quality Press, 2006)Bassett, Glenn. Operations Management for Ser vice Industries (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1992)Beckford, John. Quality: A Critical Introduction (New York: Routledge, 1998)Bhimani, Alnoor. Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)Brown, Steve. Strategic Operations Management (Woburn, MA: Butterworth- Heinemann, 2000)Buono, Anthony F., and Flemming Poulfelt. Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Manage-ment (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2005)Christensen, Bruno. From Management to Leadership (Parkland, FL: uPublish, 1999)Collins, Philippa. “Approaches to Quality,” TQM Magazine 6.3 (1994), pp. 39– 42Cunningham, Ian. The Wisdom of Strategic Learning (Brookfi eld, VT: Gower Publishing Limited, 1999)Dahlgaard, Jens J. Fundamentals of Total Quality Management (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 1998)Doherty, Tony L., and Terry Horne, eds. Managing Public Ser vices (New York: Routledge, 2002)Fink, Stephen L. High Commitment Workplaces (New York: Quorum Books, 1992)Gluck, Frederick W. “Vision and Leadership,” Interfaces: Special Issue on Strategic Manage-ment 14.1 (January– February 1984), pp. 10– 18Greisler, David, and Ronald J. Stupak. Handbook of Technology Management in Public Administration (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2007)Gummesson, Evert. Qualitative Methods in Management Research (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2000)Haring, Christina. Total Quality Management in a Theoretical and Practical Context(Frankfurt: Diplomarbeiten Agentur, 2002)Khosrow- Pour, Mehdi. Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Manage-ment (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2006)King, Jonathan B. “Ethical Encounters of the Second Kind,” Journal of Business Ethics 5 (February 1986), pp. 1– 11Knights, David, and Hugh Willmott. Introducing Or gan i za tion al Behavior and Management(London: Thomson Learning, 2007)Kolbe, Kathy. Pure Instinct: The M.O. of High Per for mance People and Teams (Phoenix, AZ: Monumentus Press, 1993)
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225 D. AppendixTotal Quality Management and Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceThis is a sampling of total quality management studies citing Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and his Metaphysics of Quality.Baets, Walter R. Or gan i za tion al Learning and Knowledge Technologies in a Dynamic Environment (Norwell, MA, 1998)Barker, Tom. Leadership for Results (Milwaukee: American Society for Quality, Quality Press, 2006)Bassett, Glenn. Operations Management for Ser vice Industries (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1992)Beckford, John. Quality: A Critical Introduction (New York: Routledge, 1998)Bhimani, Alnoor. Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)Brown, Steve. Strategic Operations Management (Woburn, MA: Butterworth- Heinemann, 2000)Buono, Anthony F., and Flemming Poulfelt. Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Manage-ment (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2005)Christensen, Bruno. From Management to Leadership (Parkland, FL: uPublish, 1999)Collins, Philippa. “Approaches to Quality,” TQM Magazine 6.3 (1994), pp. 39– 42Cunningham, Ian. The Wisdom of Strategic Learning (Brookfi eld, VT: Gower Publishing Limited, 1999)Dahlgaard, Jens J. Fundamentals of Total Quality Management (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 1998)Doherty, Tony L., and Terry Horne, eds. Managing Public Ser vices (New York: Routledge, 2002)Fink, Stephen L. High Commitment Workplaces (New York: Quorum Books, 1992)Gluck, Frederick W. “Vision and Leadership,” Interfaces: Special Issue on Strategic Manage-ment 14.1 (January– February 1984), pp. 10– 18Greisler, David, and Ronald J. Stupak. Handbook of Technology Management in Public Administration (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 2007)Gummesson, Evert. Qualitative Methods in Management Research (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2000)Haring, Christina. Total Quality Management in a Theoretical and Practical Context(Frankfurt: Diplomarbeiten Agentur, 2002)Khosrow- Pour, Mehdi. Emerging Trends and Challenges in Information Technology Manage-ment (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2006)King, Jonathan B. “Ethical Encounters of the Second Kind,” Journal of Business Ethics 5 (February 1986), pp. 1– 11Knights, David, and Hugh Willmott. Introducing Or gan i za tion al Behavior and Management(London: Thomson Learning, 2007)Kolbe, Kathy. Pure Instinct: The M.O. of High Per for mance People and Teams (Phoenix, AZ: Monumentus Press, 1993)
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. Asia- as-Technê 1
  5. 2. The Teahouse of the American Book Boston Bindings and Asia- as-Technê, 1890– 1920 13
  6. 3. Mastering the Machine Technology and the Racial Logic of Jack London’s Asia 45
  7. 4. Machine/Art Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, and the Chinese Written Character 86
  8. 5. The Technê Whim Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter 129
  9. 6. The Chinese Parrot Technê- Pop Culture and the Oriental Detective Genre 149
  10. 7. Technê- Zen and the Spiritual Quality of Global Capitalism 174
  11. 8. The Meeting of East and West 199
  12. A. Appendix Japanese Edition Books Published in the 1890s 219
  13. B. Appendix Chronology of Futurism/Vorticism in London, 1913– 1915 222
  14. C. Appendix Ezra Pound 1910– 1912 vs. Ezra Pound 1914– 1915 224
  15. D. Appendix Total Quality Management and Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 225
  16. E. Appendix Zen and Management/Corporation Studies 227
  17. F. Appendix “Zen and the Art of” in Contemporary Discourse 229
  18. Notes 239
  19. Index 311
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. Asia- as-Technê 1
  5. 2. The Teahouse of the American Book Boston Bindings and Asia- as-Technê, 1890– 1920 13
  6. 3. Mastering the Machine Technology and the Racial Logic of Jack London’s Asia 45
  7. 4. Machine/Art Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, and the Chinese Written Character 86
  8. 5. The Technê Whim Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter 129
  9. 6. The Chinese Parrot Technê- Pop Culture and the Oriental Detective Genre 149
  10. 7. Technê- Zen and the Spiritual Quality of Global Capitalism 174
  11. 8. The Meeting of East and West 199
  12. A. Appendix Japanese Edition Books Published in the 1890s 219
  13. B. Appendix Chronology of Futurism/Vorticism in London, 1913– 1915 222
  14. C. Appendix Ezra Pound 1910– 1912 vs. Ezra Pound 1914– 1915 224
  15. D. Appendix Total Quality Management and Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 225
  16. E. Appendix Zen and Management/Corporation Studies 227
  17. F. Appendix “Zen and the Art of” in Contemporary Discourse 229
  18. Notes 239
  19. Index 311
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