TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peters,Thomas J.
AU  - Waterman,Robert H.
TI  - In search of excellence: lessons from America's best-run companies 
SN  - 0060150424
PY  - 1982///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Row
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - United States
KW  - Organization and Administration
KW  - Industry
N1  - The saving remnant -- Successful American companies -- Toward new theory -- The rational model -- Man waiting for motivation -- Back to basics -- Managing ambiguity and paradox -- A bias for action -- Close to the customer -- Autonomy and entrepreneurship -- Productivity through people -- Hands-on, value-driven -- Stick to the knitting -- Simple form, lean staff -- Simultaneous loose-tight properties
N2  - Discusses eight basic practices characteristic of successfully managed companies
ER  -