ABSTRACT
Contemporary debates about managerial strategy have raised the possibility of a new transnational paradigm for combining and controlling labour and production capital. Technological change, in what are still-at the moment-relatively specialized spheres of production automation, is an important element in descriptions of new control models. What is problematic is whether new practices and policies are sufficiently uniform and coherent to constitute a distinctively new outlook. If there are differences between managerial strategies and enterprise functions both between firms and within the same firm or establishment, it becomes difficult to argue for a new paradigm.
