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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, Peter A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin [Germany] ; New York [New York] : Walter De Gruyter, 1987.
Colección:De Gruyter studies in organization ; 9.
Temas:
Technological innovations > Great Britain > Management.
Technological innovations > United States > Management.
Innovations > Grande-Bretagne > Gestion.
Innovations > États-Unis > Gestion.
Technological innovations > Management
Great Britain
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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