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      Authority and Control in Modern Industry
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      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
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203435403
      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 |16 pages

      INTRODUCTION

      ByPaul L. Robertson

      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 4|20 pages

      KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES

      ByP. P. Saviotti

      chapter 5|15 pages

      TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, TRANSACTION COSTS, AND THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION OF COTTON PRODUCTION IN THE US SOUTH, 1950–1970

      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
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