A Flexible Future? : : Prospects for Employment and Organization /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 364 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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