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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450372603321

Titolo

Authority and control in modern industry : theoretical and empirical perspectives / / edited by Paul L. Robertson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

0-429-23170-9

1-282-77846-3

9786612778469

1-134-82730-X

0-203-43540-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in business organizations and networks ; ; 10

Altri autori (Persone)

RobertsonPaul L

Disciplina

338.6/09

Soggetti

Industrial management - History

Industrial management

Labor - History

Labor

Industrial organization - History

Industrial organization

Industrial revolution

Authority

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.