The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristicʺ organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holisticʺ organization (featuring job rotation, integration of...

This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards non-routine tasks like autonomous problem-solving and other analytical activities, triggered by advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and rising supply of educated workers, are associated with...

This paper examines the effects of changes in information - processing technology on the efficient organizational forms of data - processing in decision - making systems. Data-processing is modelled in the framework of the dynamic parallel processing model of associative computation with an...

chapter 1 Introduction: New Technology @ Work -- chapter 2 Organizational change: Theories of technological change at work -- chapter 3 Manufacturing management: The integration of technical and organizational systems -- chapter 4 Technological innovation and clerical work: Call centres and the...