ABSTRACT
Others pointed out that there is no necessary connection between technologies and organizational forms (Jamieson, 1980). Technologies are ‘neutral’ or at least permit a wide variety of ways of using them so that the global spread of industrialism does not in itself give grounds for expecting convergence in management systems. Furthermore, the recent success of a number of eastern industrial economies, structured along very different lines to those in the West, seems to demonstrate that there is not one ‘logic’ but a whole series of ‘logics of industrialisation’. Indeed there are differences among western countries as well as between East and West. Different countries and different cultures adopt industrialism in different ways (Hickson and Pugh, 2001). This might suggest that convergence is a myth and that a variety of national management systems, firmly rooted in their own cultural contexts, will continue to deliver the goods in their own manner.
