ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00058.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This article argues that studies of the introduction of new technology have tended to ignore the contributions of pre‐Braverman approaches. However, in some cases, they have implicitly rediscovered the findings of an older industrial sociolog

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00059.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for communication between different corporate computer systems was expected to transform relationships between firms. However, this detailed study of three sectors of the UK publishing industry—the book trade; the magazine and newspaper trade; and newsprint supply to newspapers—found that EDI developed in a slow and incremental manner. This calls into question the radical visions of proponents of business network redes

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00060.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This article explores management's strategic decision making in relation to Total Quality Management (TQM). It demonstrates that management's strategies are fraught with politics and power relations, which influence the ‘choice’ of strategy and the way in which such strategies are ‘implemented’. Hence, management's strategic decision making may not be planned and rational, and their behaviour is often contradictory which may undermine TQM or render its outcomes uncertain and cont

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00061.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Utilising a typology based on the previous occupational background of owner‐managers within technology‐based organizations, this article analyses the previous management and technical experiences of a sample of technical entrepreneurs in the UK. Overall, the study concludes that management and technical experience will differ according to occupational background, which may have implications for support provided to small technology‐based

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00062.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines job knowledge and skill in clerical work drawing on five case studies from the area of credit management. The cognitive, social and ‘tacit’ skills necessary for clerical effectiveness in this sector are identified and examined. Feminist approaches to skills analysis are used to examine how and why this type of work is under‐v

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00063.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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This article examines the role which elite MNC employers play in the process of qualification inflation within the Irish Republic. While these employers do not contribute towards inflation across technical occupations the tendency to select the most qualified within individual occupations has led to the emergence of a ‘graduate barrier’ between technicians and engineers/scienti

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00064.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book Reviewed in this article:Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production Ake Sandberg (Ed.)Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry Ulrich Jurgens, Thomas Malsch and Knuth Dohse Cambridge University Press

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1996.tb00065.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY