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This article charts the development of the idea of cellular manufacturing (CM) from its beginnings to its present status as a general organizational principle. Using survey data and a case study, an assessment is made of the application of CM and its trends for the future, especially from the human resources perspective.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00046.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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This article explores theoretical and empirical work on IT strategy formulation. While the managerialist focus upon a structured rational text‐book model is common in the literature, it is not supported by empirical research on IT projects in the financial services secto

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00047.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Drawing on empirical material from comparative research on jobbing printing in Iceland and Sweden, the author argues that the typesetting process has been subjected to deskilling, and he stresses that the development has been far more complex than often is realised. He concludes that gender, firm size, and production run and variety, must be considered in order to explain the diversity in the typesetting process.

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00048.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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The computing occupations are in a state of transition between a technical service and something more central to organizational power and decision‐making. This process has had complex implications for the nature of computing work and for careers. There is no certainty that embryonic changes will carry through. But neither should the chances of these occupations of mounting a ‘collective mobility project’ be written off

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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The relationship between new information and communication technology and organizations is the subject of considerable debate. So too is the nature of organizational transformation. ‘Business process re‐engineering’, with its emphasis upon the strategic deployment of information systems, brings both debates together. But does it resolve any of the i

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviews in this article:Technclogy in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology Graham Button (Ed.)Communication, Technology and the Development of People Bernard WoodsPhotonic Technology and Industrial Policy: US Responses to Technological Change Ernest StembergBeyond Taylorism: Computerization and the New Industrial Relations Lorraine GiordanoJapanization at Work John BrattonWorking for the Japanese Stephanie JonesTechnology and Work in German Industry Norbert Altmann, Christoph Kohler and Pamela Meil (Eds.)Towards Global Localisation: The Computing and Telecommunications Industries in Britain and France Philip Cooke, Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Olivier Weinstein, Peter Wells, Martine Lemattre and Patrice GrevetNew Technology and Practical Police Work S. Ackroyd, R. Harper, J. A. Hughes, D. Shapiro and K. Soothill

ISSN:0268-1072    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00051.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1994

数据来源: WILEY