Reworking the World - First edition

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783110861402
Publishing year: 1992
Publisher: De Gruyter

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ISBN/EAN: 9783110861402

ISBN - alternate spelling:
978-3-11-086140-2
Alternate spelling and related search-keywords:
Book author: theodor storm, haarmann, popovich
Book title: rework

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Author: Jane Marceau
Title: de Gruyter Studies in Organization; Reworking the World - Organisations, Technologies, and Cultures in Comparative Perspective
Publisher: De Gruyter
514 Pages
Publishing year: 2011-07-22
Berlin/Boston
Language: English
149,95 € (DE)
149,95 € (AT)
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9 b/w ill., 8 b/w tbl.

EA; E107; Nonbooks, PBS / Wirtschaft/Volkswirtschaft; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; Verstehen; BUS041000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUS071000 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership; COM000000 COMPUTERS / General; COM034000 COMPUTERS / Interactive & Multimedia; POL024000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Political economy; Ownership & organization of enterprises; Computer networking & communications; Computer science; Human-computer interaction; Management; Organisationskultur; Aufsatzsammlung; Organisationswandel; Technischer Fortschritt; Strategisches Management; Unternehmertum / Start-ups; Grafische und digitale Media-Anwendungen; BB

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