Screen LibraryReworking the world : organisations, technologies, and cultures in comparative perspective /
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1992 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
De gruyter studies in organization ;
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110861402 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110861402.jpg |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (514pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110861402 |
| Index Number: | HD31 |
| CLC: | C936 |
| 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 -- 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-Earne |