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 range of different industries.
Author(s): Paul Robertson
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 264
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction......Page 14
The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation?......Page 30
The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system......Page 58
Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises......Page 86
Knowledge, information and organisational structures......Page 133
Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970......Page 153
The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United States......Page 168
Men and monotony: fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company......Page 186
Management and labour in German chemical companies before World War One......Page 216
Buddenbrooks revisited: the firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries......Page 234
Index......Page 253
