Anglo-American Innovation

Peter A. Clark

Aug. 2015 · de Gruyter Studies in Organization Boek 9 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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