Authority and Control in Modern Industry : Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation. Including contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan, it considers such relations, and the possible advantages of family ownership. The book combines historical and contemporary case studies from a range of different industries

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Robertson, Paul L.
Publisher:	London : Routledge
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (259 p)
Series:	Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks Ser. ; v.5
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record 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
ISBN:	978-0-415-13212-1 ; 0-415-13212-6 ; 0-203-43540-0 ; 978-0-203-43540-3 ; 978-0-415-13212-1
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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