Reworking the World : : Organisations, Technologies, and Cultures in Comparative Perspective / / ed. by Jane Marceau.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allan, Cameron,; Biggart, Nicole Woolsey,; Clegg, Stewart,; Dankbaar, Ben,; Dodgson, Mark,; Garnsey, Elizabeth,; Gorgeu, Armelle,; Higgins, Winton,; Jureidini, Ray,; Marceau, Jane,; Mathews, John,; Mathieu, René,; Morris, Jonathan,; Muetzelfeldt, Michael,; Nishida, Judith,; Oliver, Nick,; Palmer, Gill,; Poon, Teresa,; Roberts, John,; Sandkull, Bengt,; Selby-Smith, Chris,; Tulder, Rob van,; Weiss, Linda,; Wilkinson, Barry,
• HerausgeberIn: Marceau, Jane,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (514 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction. Reworking the World: Organisations, Technologies and Cultures in Comparative Perspective --; Section One: Re-Analysing the World --; Introduction --; Institutional Logic and Economic Explanation --; French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprises: Modern Passions and Postmodern Prognoses --; The Politics of Industrial Organisation: A Comparative View --; Section Two: Learning from the East --; Japanizing the World: The Case of Toyota --; Giants and Dwarves: Changing Technologies and Productive Interlinkages in Australian Manufacturing Industry --; Developing ‘Partnerships’: New Organisational Practices in Manufacturer- Supplier Relationships in the French Automobile and Aerospace Industries --; Technology Transfer and East Asian Business Recipes: The Adoption of Japanese Cotton Spinning Techniques in Shanghai and Hong Kong --; Western Technology in a Chinese Context: New Technologies and the Organisation of Work in Hong Kong --; Section Three: Technological Innovation: The Search for Control --; The Illusion of a Common Supranational Interest: Democratising the Standardisation Process in Factory Automation --; Yet Another Panacea? The Quality Management Movement in Australia --; Organisational Restructuring and Devolutionist Doctrine: Organisation as Strategic Control --; Section Four: Innovation and Disillusion: Firms at the Leading Edge --; Clashes of Technology and Culture: Enterprise Acquisition and the Integration of New Ventures --; Strategies for Technological Learning: New Forms of Organisational Structure --; Section Five: Reworking the World of Work --; An Australian Model of Industrial Restructuring --; Reorganising Labour: The Volvo Experience --; The Move to ‘Partnership’: Human Resources in Organisational Change --; Workplace Strategic Change: Classification Restructuring in the Australian Public Service --; Swedish Wage-Earner Funds: The Problematic Relationship Between Economic Efficiency and Popular Power --; Conclusion. Reworking the World: Lessons from Everywhere --; Reworking the World: Lessons from Everywhere --; About the Authors --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110861402; 9783110635669
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110861402
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jane Marceau.