A Flexible Future? : : Prospects for Employment and Organization / / ed. by Jonathan Morris, Paul Blyton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Blyton, Paul,; Clarke, Thomas,; Dastmalchian, Ali,; Franz, Hans-Werner,; Gasteen, Anne,; Glimell, Hans,; Holmes, John,; Malloch, Hedley,; McKinlay, Alan,; McNulty, Des,; Morris, Jonathan,; O’Connell Davidson, Julia,; Rainnie, Al,; Reed, Michael I.,; Sloane, Peter J.,; Starkey, Ken,; Turnbull, Peter,; Ursell, Gillian D.,; Walsh, Tim,; Whitaker, Marian,; Winterton, Jonathan,
• HerausgeberIn: Blyton, Paul,; Morris, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2017
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 364 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of tables --; List of figures --; Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues --; Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory --; Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? --; Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants --; Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden --; Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant --; Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry --; Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. --; Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry --; Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract --; Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry --; Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry --; Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry --; Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal --; Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering --; Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK --; Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals --; Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives --; List of Contributors --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110863345; 9783110635669
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110863345
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jonathan Morris, Paul Blyton.