Reworking the World

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction. Reworking the World: Organisations, Technologies and Cultures in Comparative Perspective / Marceau, Jane -- Section One: Re-Analysing the World -- Introduction / Marceau, Jane -- Institutional Logic and Economic Explanation / Biggart, Nicole Woolsey -- French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprises: Modern Passions and Postmodern Prognoses / Clegg, Stewart -- The Politics of Industrial Organisation: A Comparative View / Weiss, Linda -- Section Two: Learning from the East -- Introduction / Marceau, Jane -- Japanizing the World: The Case of Toyota / Wilkinson, Barry / Morris, Jonathan / Oliver, Nick -- Giants and Dwarves: Changing Technologies and Productive Interlinkages in Australian Manufacturing Industry / Marceau, Jane / Jureidini, Ray -- Developing 'Partnerships': New Organisational Practices in Manufacturer- Supplier Relationships in the French Automobile and Aerospace Industries / Gorgeu, Armelle / Mathieu, René -- Technology Transfer and East Asian Business Recipes: The Adoption of Japanese Cotton Spinning Techniques in Shanghai and Hong Kong / Nishida, Judith -- Western Technology in a Chinese Context: New Technologies and the Organisation of Work in Hong Kong / Poon, Teresa -- Section Three: Technological Innovation: The Search for Control -- Introduction / Marceau, Jane -- The Illusion of a Common Supranational Interest: Democratising the Standardisation Process in Factory Automation / Tulder, Rob van / Dankbaar, Ben -- Yet Another Panacea? The Quality Management Movement in Australia / Palmer, Gill / Allan, Cameron -- Organisational Restructuring and Devolutionist Doctrine: Organisation as Strategic Control / Muetzelfeldt, Michael -- Section Four: Innovation and Disillusion: Firms at the Leading Edge -- Introduction / Marceau, Jane -- Clashes of Technology and Culture: Enterprise Acquisition and the Integration of New Ventures / Garnsey, Elizabeth / Roberts, John -- Strategies for Technological Learning: New Forms of Organisational Structure / Dodgson, Mark -- Section Five: Reworking the World of Work -- Introduction / Marceau, Jane -- An Australian Model of Industrial Restructuring / Mathews, John -- Reorganising Labour: The Volvo Experience / Sandkull, Bengt -- The Move to 'Partnership': Human Resources in Organisational Change / Gorgeu, Armelle / Mathieu, René -- Workplace Strategic Change: Classification Restructuring in the Australian Public Service / Selby-Smith, Chris -- Swedish Wage-Earner Funds: The Problematic Relationship Between Economic Efficiency and Popular Power / Higgins, Winton -- Conclusion. Reworking the World: Lessons from Everywhere -- Reworking the World: Lessons from Everywhere / Marceau, Jane -- About the Authors -- Select Bibliography -- Index