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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Tony Elger; Chris Smith |
ISBN: | 9780199241514 0199241511 |
OCLC Number: | 762323595 |
Notes: | Bibliogr. p. 375-392. |
Description: | 1 vol. (VIII-414 p.) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | PART I: THEORETICAL ISSUES ; 1. Transplants, Transfer, and Work Transformation ; 2. The Japanese Model and its Implications for International Transfer and Work Transformation ; 3. The Internationalization of Japanese Manufacturing ; 4. A Model for Understanding Work Organization in the Transnational Company ; 5. Research Methods: The Strategy of Multiple Case-Study Research ; PART II: MANUFACTURING TRANSPLANTS: CLUSTER AND COMPANY ; 6. The Arena of Transplant Capital: Space and Locality Studies ; 7. Work and Employment Relations in the Large Assembly Transplants ; 8. Work and Employment Relations in the Smaller Component Sub-Contractors ; 9. Upgrading Production Regimes: R&D - the Apricot/Mitsubishi Electric Drama ; PART III: REMAKING WORK LIVES: THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL ACTION ; 10. Remaking Working Lives: The Scope and Limits of Collective and Individual Action ; 11. Managers and Workers: Collective and Individual Froms of Resistance and Acqueiscence ; 12. Conclusions: Transfer and Hybridization of Production Models: Lessons from Japaneses Transplant Research |
Responsibility: | Tony Elger and Chris Smith. |
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'Elgar and Smith contribute to deepening our understanding of this issue through a close investigation of the ways and the dynamics in which Japanese companies construct the work organization and employee relations on foreign soil' * Business History, Vol 48 * Elger and Smith contribute to deepening our understanding of this issue through a close investigation of the ways and the dynamics in which Japanese companies construct their work organisation. * Business History * 'Theoretically, it provides critical engagement with perspectives on the Japanese model and in particular, problems arising from the reification of this model in academic analysis...Empirically, the book provides a wealth of rich case study data governing the nature of the labour process and employment relations in each factory, the different experiences of Japanese managers, British managers, manual workers and non-manual workers, and the patterns of consent andconflict on the shop-floor...highly recommended.' * British Journal on Industrial Relations * 'The sharp synthesis of the framework, and the ways in which Elger and Smith put it to use in interpreting and evaluating their data, will be of considerable value to researchers.' * Organization Studies * '...the book is successful in illustrating the contested nature of policy implementation and the challenges that this poses for management.' * Historical Studies in Industrial Relations * '...the work is really a stellar example of the extended ethnographic method ....the case studies do a very good job of giving greater nuance and complexity to the notion of "hybridity".' * American Journal of Sociology * Read more...

