New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) is a GM-Toyota joint venture that has been lauded by some for achieving performance based on high employee involvement, and criticized by others for intensifying work and harming workers. In 1993, OSHA cited NUMMI for paying insufficient attention to...

Factors likely to cause a transformation of current skill formation patterns in the accounting industry are analyzed. In 1986, managers and employees of 3 major US accounting firms were interviewed. The firms differ in degree of centralization. The major pressures on skill formation are: 1....

In this paper, we first review the central role traditionally played by community in structuring professional work, especially the case of medicine; we then document the growing influence of market and hierarchy principles in the progressive restructuring of professional work over recent decades;...

New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) is a GM-Toyota joint venture that has been lauded for achieving high performance based on employee involvement but criticized for intensifying work and harming workers. In 1993, OSHA cited NUMMI for paying insufficient attention to ergonomic issues...