By Thomas A. Kochan, Michael Useem
ISBN-10: 0195065042
ISBN-13: 9780195065046
This publication examines how companies can, and may, rework their practices to compete in a global economic climate. study effects from a multi-disciplinary workforce of MIT researchers, in addition to the stories and insights of a decide upon staff of practitioners, are built-in right into a version that stresses the necessity for systemic and transformative instead of piecemeal or incremental adjustments in association practices and public coverage. This integration of analysis and adventure ends up in a controversy for a brand new organizational studying model--one able to gaining virtue from worker range, cooperation throughout organizational limitations, strategic restructuring, and complex expertise. The ebook starts off with a foreword by way of Lester C. Thurow.
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An alternative way of explaining these diverse models of corporate restructuring employed in this chapter focuses on local socioeconomic factors which shape firmlevel behavior. Building on recent work by Arnaldo Bagnasco (1985), Carlo Triglia (1987), and Mark Granovetter (1985) which illustrates how local sociopolitical traditions and institutions influence the strategic choices of economic actors like firms and unions, I argue that three local features—(1) the organizational features of local firms and unions; (2) the ideological outlook or worldview of their leaderships, and (3) the degree of social and political development of the surrounding context—all shape the type of strategies developed by these actors.
As one local business leader put it, the unions and the managers united in a "pact for development" in order to save the local industry and preserve jobs. , 1987). Cooperation continues between the unions and business leaders. 14 The results have been positive. ) (Unione Industriale Biellese, 1981). Union membership rates are above the national average and the Communist party is the only party able to elect a THE POLITICAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGE 35 representative to Parliament from this politically competitive electoral district.
Lanerossi) of intense labormanagement conflict and blocked industrial adjustment. An alternative way of explaining these diverse models of corporate restructuring employed in this chapter focuses on local socioeconomic factors which shape firmlevel behavior. Building on recent work by Arnaldo Bagnasco (1985), Carlo Triglia (1987), and Mark Granovetter (1985) which illustrates how local sociopolitical traditions and institutions influence the strategic choices of economic actors like firms and unions, I argue that three local features—(1) the organizational features of local firms and unions; (2) the ideological outlook or worldview of their leaderships, and (3) the degree of social and political development of the surrounding context—all shape the type of strategies developed by these actors.