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Debates about the role of capitalist corporations depend ultimately on their response to the enduring question of 'who controls the large modern corporation'. This article aims to identify various competing schools of thought that can be classified as 'managerialist' and 'anti-managerialist',...
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This article introduces this Business History special issue on the managerial revolution and the seven selected contributions. It argues for the central importance of the managerial revolution for business historians and the value of careful business history in appreciating the empirical...
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This article proposes a comparative account of the progress of the managerial revolution in France and Norway over the post-World War Two period. This account is set and framed within theoretical discussions on and around 'Americanization'. We argue that in both the French and Norwegian cases...
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This article tests Alfred Chandler's thesis that the managerial revolution, that is, the building of managerial hierarchies, clustered in a selected set of industries where the need for co-ordination was particularly high. These fast-growing, capital-intensive, and high-volume producing...
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Managerial revolutions - which witness the appropriation of corporate power by professional managers - come in different shapes and sizes. This article builds upon existing critiques of Chandler's universal theory of the managerial revolution through reference to the French national business...
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The topic of the knowledge-based society and its implications on management is highly debated nowadays. Therefore, the … management, whether in private or public companies. In this society, the central resource of management is knowledge and the …
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, biotechnologies, genetic engineering, green revolution, nuclear technology, space navigation etc. The transformation of management in …
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firm’s management have to define a coherent behavioral model in order to seriously take into account and to valorize the … knowledge management as a source of sustainable competitiveness into the knowledge based society. …
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Comparison of choice of technology, adaptation and technology transfer by public enterprises and … heavy electrical industry firms, compares organization behaviour, management decision making, Innovation research and … development, productivity, etc.; finds that foreign owned multinational enterprise subsidiarys do not sell technology; considers …
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countries - argues that choice of technology should be compatible with labour intensive requirements and local level management …ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the blending of traditional technology and technological change in developing … and economic conditions; considers employment creation and economic implications; concludes that technology transfer …
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