Reworking the World

eBook (pdf)

(0)

Donner la première évaluation

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. Reworking the World: Organisations, Technologies and Cultures in Comparative ...

20%

139.90

CHF111.90

Vous économisez CHF 28.00

Download est disponible immédiatement

eBook (pdf)

Description

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