Record Nr.

UNISA996199892903316

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

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.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002843659707536

Autore

Aprea, Armando A.