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1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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De Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 9
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De Gruyter studies in organization ; 9.
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| Note |
Restrictions on access to electronic version: access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS id and password. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 The Agenda -- 1.1 Three Core Problems -- 1.2 Organization Studies: Developing a Process Perspective -- 1.3 Cross-Cultural Patterns of Innovation -- 1.3.1 Context: Choice of Technique -- 1.3.2 Britain and America: Convergence or Distinct Trajectories? -- 1.3.3 The Future: Renaissance or Retardation? -- 1.3.4 Typical Variety: The Anglo-American Exemplar -- 1.4 Structure of the Book -- Part II. Evolvement of Innovations: Shape and Uses -- 2 State of Theory -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Main Areas -- 2.3 Basic Concepts -- 2.4 Innovations: Multidimensional -- 2.5 Problem Agenda: The Dominance of Economics -- 2.6 Changing Assumptions -- 2.7 Contexts: the Selection of Innovations -- 2.8 Transnational Transfers of Innovations -- 3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Economics of Innovation -- 3.2.1 Hägerstrand -- 3.2.2 Mansfield -- 3.3 Sociology of Innovation -- 3.3.1 Rogers I -- 3.3.2 Rogers II -- 3.3.3 Initiation and Implementation -- 3.3.4 Implementation: Current Normative Model -- 3.4 Marketing and Infrastructure Model -- 3.4.1 L.A.Brown -- 3.4.2 Von Hippel -- 4 Technology as Process: Trajectories and Life Cycles -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Technology and Process -- 4.3 Trajectories and the Role of Paradigms -- 4.4 Life Cycle Thesis: Product, Process and Work Organization -- 4.4.1 Abernathy I -- 4.4.2 Abernathy II -- 4.5 Technology as Knowledge: Locus of Initiative -- 5 The Corporate User: Innovation-Design Capacity -- 5.1 Limits of the Supply Model -- 5.2 Multiple, Simultaneous and Diverse Innovations -- 5.3 Organizing: Communities, Networks and Bodies of Knowledge -- 5.4 Innovation-Design Capacities -- 5.5 Case Illustration: Contested Innovation -- 5.6 Recurrence, Momentum and Inertia -- 5.7 Cultures, Leadership and Adaptation -- 5.8 Appropriation: The Basis for Survival. |
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Part III. Anglo-American Patterns of Organizing -- 6 Transatlantic Evolvement I: Americans and the Absorption Gap -- 6.1 Introduction: Absorption Gap Illustrated -- 6.2 Case Study: "Teamwork" -- 6.2.1 The Questions -- 6.2.2 Managerial Templates of Organizing -- 6.2.3 The Evolvement of Innovations: Recapitulation -- 6.3 British Predispositions -- 6.3.1 Nineteenth-Century Societal Context -- 6.3.2 Origins -- 6.3.3 The Embryonic Games -- 6.3.4 Framework of Analysis -- 6.3.5 Crystalization and Schism: 1830s-1850s -- 6.3.6 The Rugby Football Union, 1871 -- 6.3.7 Diffusion and Further Schism: 1880s and 1890s -- 6.4 American Predispositions -- 6.4.1 Players and Winners -- 6.4.2 Re-Invention: 1876-1886 -- 6.4.3 The Coaches -- 6.4.4 The Professional Game -- 6.5 Comparing American Football and Rugby Union -- 7 Economy, Structuration and Region: A Basic Framework -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Economy: An Allocative Mechanism through Time and Space -- 7.2.1 Introduction -- 7.2.2 Longwave Theories -- 7.2.3 Transaction Costs, Ideology and the State -- 7.3 Structuration -- 7.3.1 Introduction -- 7.3.2 Asymmetrical Power Relations -- 7.3.3 Knowledge Bases and Thinking Practices -- 7.3.4 Institutions of Work: Capital, Management and Labour -- 7.3.5 Structuration and Transitions -- 7.4 Regions: Britain and the USA -- 8 British Systems of Organizing: Contexts and Directions into the First Divide -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Netherlands: Patterns of Innovation -- 8.3 Britain: An Offshore Island -- 8.4 Cotton: Clans and Markets -- 8.5 Entering the First Divide: Templates of Organizing -- 8.6 Institutions of Work -- 9 American Systems of Organizing: The Early Foundations -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The American System of Manufactures Reconsidered -- 9.3 Location and Resources -- 9.4 Founding Cultures -- 9.5 North Atlantic Economy. |
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9.6 American System of Manufactures in Context -- 10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 An Integrated World-Economy -- 10.2.1 World-Economy -- 10.2.2 Infrastructure: Transport and Information -- 10.3 Design, Administrative Structures and Corporate Education -- 10.3.1 Design -- 10.3.2 Administrative Sciences -- 10.3.3 Corporate Education and Training -- 10.4 Market Control and the Modem Enterprise -- 10.4.1 Agribusiness -- 10.4.2 Cigarette Industry 1880-1900 -- 10.4.3 Electricals, Chemicals and Automobiles -- 10.5 Innovation as a Filiere: Imitation and Rigidities -- 11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Loose-Coupling and Devolvement in Work Organization -- 11.2.1 Introduction -- 11.2.2 Colonies, Trading Companies and Professions -- 11.2.3 Rationalisation and Bureaucracy -- 11.2.4 Forms of Payment and Skill Ownership -- 11.3 Markets and Sectors -- 11.3.1 Commerce and Shipping -- 11.3.2 Cotton and Cigarettes -- 11.3.3 Cars, Chemicals and Electricals -- 12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Administrative Innovations -- 12.2.1 Taylorism: Work Study -- 12.2.2 Organization Development (OD) -- 12.2.3 The Multidivisional Form (MDF) -- 12.2.4 Plantwide Productivity Schemes -- 12.3 Technological Innovations -- 12.3.1 Automobile Assembly Lines in the 1920s -- 12.3.2 Information Technology: 1970s and 1980s -- 12.4 Management Education -- 12.5 Assessment -- Part IV. Implications -- 13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Structuration: Framework -- 13.2.1 Geopolitical -- 13.2.2 New World-Economy: JUSA -- 13.2.3 Structuration -- 13.3 Appropriation Rather than Imitation/Rejection -- 13.4 Markets and Knowledge -- 13.4.1 Current Strengths -- 13.4.2 Markets. |
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13.4.3 Production Knowledge and Techniques: Process Innovations -- 13.4.4 Production Institutions: Education -- 14 Summary and Implications -- 14.1 The Core Problems -- 14.2 Innovation Evolvement -- 14.3 Anglo-American Patterns and Transfers -- 14.4 New Divides -- 14.5 Renaissance or Retardation? -- 15 References -- 16 Author Index -- 17 Subject Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- Management.
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Technological innovations. |
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Great Britain. |
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Management. |
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Technological innovations -- United States -- Management.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clark, Peter A. Anglo-American innovation. Berlin [Germany] ; New York [New York] : Walter De Gruyter, 1987 9783110105728 |
| ISBN |
9783110857504 (electronic book) |
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9783110105728 |
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3110105721 |
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9783110857504 (e-book) |
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3110857502 |
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