Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction. Reworking the World: Organisations, Technologies and Cultures in Comparative Perspective 1
5. Section One: Re-Analysing the World
6. Introduction 21
7. Institutional Logic and Economic Explanation 29
8. French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprises: Modern Passions and Postmodern Prognoses 55
9. The Politics of Industrial Organisation: A Comparative View 95
10. Section Two: Learning from the East
11. Introduction 127
12. Japanizing the World: The Case of Toyota 133
13. Giants and Dwarves: Changing Technologies and Productive Interlinkages in Australian Manufacturing Industry 151
14. Developing ‘Partnerships’: New Organisational Practices in Manufacturer- Supplier Relationships in the French Automobile and Aerospace Industries 171
15. Technology Transfer and East Asian Business Recipes: The Adoption of Japanese Cotton Spinning Techniques in Shanghai and Hong Kong 181
16. Western Technology in a Chinese Context: New Technologies and the Organisation of Work in Hong Kong 205
17. Section Three: Technological Innovation: The Search for Control
18. Introduction 239
19. The Illusion of a Common Supranational Interest: Democratising the Standardisation Process in Factory Automation 247
20. Yet Another Panacea? The Quality Management Movement in Australia 277
21. Organisational Restructuring and Devolutionist Doctrine: Organisation as Strategic Control 295
22. Section Four: Innovation and Disillusion: Firms at the Leading Edge
23. Introduction 319
24. Clashes of Technology and Culture: Enterprise Acquisition and the Integration of New Ventures 325
25. Strategies for Technological Learning: New Forms of Organisational Structure 361
26. Section Five: Reworking the World of Work
27. Introduction 377
28. An Australian Model of Industrial Restructuring 385
29. Reorganising Labour: The Volvo Experience 399
30. The Move to ‘Partnership’: Human Resources in Organisational Change 411
31. Workplace Strategic Change: Classification Restructuring in the Australian Public Service 423
32. Swedish Wage-Earner Funds: The Problematic Relationship Between Economic Efficiency and Popular Power 443
33. Conclusion. Reworking the World: Lessons from Everywhere
34. Reworking the World: Lessons from Everywhere 461
35. About the Authors 475
36. Select Bibliography 481
37. Index 511