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Authority and control in modern industry : theoretical and empirical perspectives / edited by Paul L. Robertson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in business organization and networks ; 10.
- Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial management--History.
- Industrial management.
- Industrial management--Case studies.
- Labor--History.
- Labor.
- Labor--Case studies.
- Industrial organization--History.
- Industrial organization.
- Industrial organization--Case studies.
- Industrial revolution.
- Authority--Case studies.
- Authority.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation and includes contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation?; The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system; Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises; Knowledge, information and organisational structures; Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970
- The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United StatesMen and monotony: fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company; Management and labour in German chemical companies before World War One; Buddenbrooks revisited: the firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-23170-9
- 1-282-77846-3
- 9786612778469
- 1-134-82730-X
- 0-203-43540-0
- 9780429231704
- OCLC:
- 439657758
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