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Authority and Control in Modern Industry
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Authority and Control in Modern Industry book
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Authority and Control in Modern Industry
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Authority and Control in Modern Industry book
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Edited ByPaul L. Robertson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1999
eBook Published 1 June 2002
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 264
eBook ISBN 9780429231704
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Robertson, P.L. (Ed.). (1999). Authority and Control in Modern Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203435403
ABSTRACT
This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation. Including contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan, it considers such relations, and the possible advantages of family ownership. The book combines historical and contemporary case studies from a ra
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|28 pages
THE RISE OF THE FACTORY SYSTEM IN BRITAIN
Efficiency or exploitation?
ByS. R. H. Jones
chapter 2|28 pages
THE COEVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANISATION IN THE TRANSITION TO THE FACTORY SYSTEM
ByRichard N. Langlois
chapter 3|47 pages
Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises THOMAS WELSKOPP
The interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises
ByThomas Welskopp
chapter 6|18 pages
THE MAINTENANCE OF PROFESSIONAL AUTHORITY
The case of physicians and hospitals in the United States
ByDeborah A. Savage, Paul L. Robertson
chapter 7|30 pages
MEN AND MONOTONY
Fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company
ByWayne A. Lewchuk
chapter 8|18 pages
MANAGEMENT AND LABOUR IN GERMAN CHEMICAL COMPANIES BEFORE WORLD WAR ONE
BySachio Kaku
chapter 9|19 pages
BUDDENBROOKS REVISITED
The firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
ByDirk Schumann