Reworking the World : : Organisations, Technologies, and Cultures in Comparative Perspective /

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

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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
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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

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