Work organisation within a dynamic globalising context: A critique of national institutional analysis of the international firm and an alternative perspective

Remaking Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-60

  Smith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953719326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511753800.003     Document Type: Chapter

References (119)

1. Abo, T. (ed.) (1994) Hybrid Factory: The Japanese Production System in the United States, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Abo, T. (1998) Hybridization of the Japanese production system in North America, newly industrializing economies, South-east Asia and Europe: contrasted configurations, in R. Boyer, E. Charron, U. Jürgens and S. Tolliday (eds.) Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 216-30.
3. Ackers, P. (2005) Theorizing the employment relationship: materialists and institutionalists, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 43, 3, 537-60.
4. Albert, M. (1993) Capitalism vs. Capitalism: How America’s Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short-term Profit Has Ledit totheBrinkofCollapse, NewYork: FourWalls EightWindows.
5. Beneria, L. (1995) Response: the dynamics of globalization, International Labor and Working Class History, 47, 45-52.
6. Block, F. (2002) Rethinking capitalism, in N. W. Biggart (ed.) Readings in Economic Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, 219-30.
7. Boyer, R. E. Charron, U., Jürgens and S., Tolliday. (eds.) (1998) Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Braverman, H. (1974) Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, New York: Monthly Review Press.
9. Cerny, P. G. (1990) The Changing Architecture of Politics: Structure, Agency and the Future of the State, London: Sage.
10. Chalmers, N. J. (1989). Industrial Relations in Japan: The Peripheral Workforce, London: Routledge.
11. Chandler, A. D. (1990) Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
12. Child, J. (1981) Culture, contingency and capitalism in the cross-national study of organisations, in B.M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. III, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 303-56.
13. Clark, P., and F. Mueller (1996) Organisations and nations: from universalism to institution­alism, British Journal of Management, 7, 2, 125-40.
14. Coates, D. (2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era, Cambridge: Polity Press.
15. Crouch, C. (2001) Heterogeneities of practice and interest, New Political Economy, 6, 1, 131-5.
16. Crouch, C. (2005) Complementarity and fit in the study of comparative capitalisms, in G. Morgan, R. Whitley and E. Moen (eds.) Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Systems of Economic Organization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 167-9.
17. Crouch, C., and W., Streeck. (eds.) (1997) Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity, London: Sage.
18. Crouch, C., D., Finegold and M., Sako (1999) Are Skills the Answer? The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Societies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
19. Dedoussis, V. (1995) Simply a question of cultural barriers? The search for new perspectives in the transfer of Japanese management practices, Journal of Management Studies, 32, 6, 731-46.
20. Delbridge, R. (1998) Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing: The Workplace Experience of Lean Production and the ‘Japanese’ Model, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. Dicken, P. (1998) Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy (3rd edn.), London: Paul Chapman.
22. DiMaggio, P. J., and W. W. Powell (1983) The iron cage revisited: institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields, American Sociological Review, 48, 147-60.
23. Dodd, N. (2000) Economic sociology in Britain, Economic Sociology European Electronic Newsletter, 2, 1, 3-12.
24. Dore, R. (2000) Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
25. Dore, R. (2002) Stock market capitalism and its diffusion, New Political Economy, 7, 1, 115-21.
26. Dosi, G., and B. Kogut (1993) National specificities and the context of change: the coevolution of organization and technology, in B. Kogut (ed.) (1993) Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 249-62.
27. Edwards, T. (2004) International human resource management and industrial relations: a framework for analysis, in A.-W. Harzing and J. Van Ruysseveldt (eds.) International Human Resource Management, London: Sage, 389-410.
28. Edwards, T., X. Coller, L. Ortiz, C. Rees and M. Wortmann (2006) National industrial relations systems and cross-border restructuring: evidence from a merger in the pharma­ceuticals sector, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 12, 1, 69-88.
29. Edwards, T., and C., Rees (2006) International Human Resource Management: Globalization, National Systems and Multinational Companies, Harlow: Pearson Education.
30. Elger, T., and P. Burnham (2001) Labour, globalization and the ‘Competition state’, Competition and Change, 5, 3, 245-68.
31. Elger, T., and C. Smith. (1994) Introduction, and Global Japanization? Convergence and competition in the organization of the labour process, in T. Elger and C. Smith (eds.) Global Japanization? The Transnational Transformation of the Labour Process, London: Routledge, 1-24, 31-59.
32. Elger, T., and C. Smith. (2005) Assembling Work: Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. Esping-Anderson, G. (1990) Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
34. Ferner, A. (1997) Country of origin effects and HRM in multinational companies, Human Resource Management Journal, 7, 1, 19-37.
35. Ferner, A., and R. Hyman (1992), Industrial Relations in the New Europe, London: Blackwell.
36. Ferner, A., J. Quintanilla and C. Sanchez-Runde. (eds.) (2006) Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
37. Florida, R., and M. Kenney (1991) Organisation versus culture: Japanese automotive transplants in the United States, Industrial Relations Journal, 22, 3, 181-96.
38. Freyssenet, M., A. Mair, K. Shimizu and G. Volpato. (eds.) (1999) One Best Way? Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World’s Automobile Producers, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
39. Froebel, F., J. Heinrichs and O. Kreye (1980). The New International Division of Labour, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
40. Fruin, W. M. (1992) The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
41. Geppert, M. and M. Mayer. (eds.) (2006) Global, National and Local Practices in Multinational Companies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
42. Gereffi, G. (1994) Capitalism, development and global commodity chains, in L. Sklair (ed.) Capitalism and Development, London: Routledge, 211-31.
43. Gereffi, G. and M. Korzeniewicz. (eds.) (1994) Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism, Westport, CT: Praeger.
44. Gerlach, M. (1992) Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
45. Giddens, A. (2001) Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping Our Lives, London: Routledge.
46. Graham, L. (1995) On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker, Ithaca NY: ILR/Cornell University Press.
47. Hall, P. A., and D. Soskice (2001) An introduction to varieties of capitalism, in P. A. Hall and D. Soskice (eds.) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-69.
48. Hampden-Turner, C., and F. Trompenaars (1993) The Seven Cultures of Capitalism, London: Piatkus.
49. Hollingsworth, J. R., and R. Boyer (1997) Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddedness of Institutions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
50. Hollingsworth, J. R., P. C. Schmitter and W. Streeck (eds.) (1994) Governing Capitalist Economies: Performance and Control of Economic Sectors, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
51. Hyman, R. (2001) Understanding European Industrial Relations: Between Market, Class and Society, London: Sage.
52. Hyman, R. (2006) Structuring the transnational space: can Europe resist multinational capital?, in A. Ferner, J. Quintanilla and C. Sánchez-Runde (eds.) Multinationals, Institutions and the Construction of Transnational Practices, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 239-55.
53. Inagami, T., and D. H. Whittaker (2005) The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
54. Itagaki, H. (ed.) (1997) The Japanese Production System: Hybrid Factories in East Asia, London: Macmillan.
55. Jacoby, S.M. (1990). The new institutionalism: what can it learn from the old?, Industrial Relations, 29, 316-59.
56. Jacoby, S.M. (2005) The Embedded Corporation, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
57. Jürgens, U., K. Naumann and J. Rupp (2000) Shareholders in an adverse environment: the German case, Economy and Society, 29, 1, 54-79.
58. Jürgens, U., T. Malsch and K. Dohse (1993) Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
59. Katz, H. C. (2005) The causes and consequences of increased within-country variance in employment practices, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 43, 4, 577-83.
60. Katz, H. C., and O. Darbishire (2000) Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems, Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press.
61. Kenney, M., and R., Florida (1993) Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and its Transfer to the US, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
62. Kerr, C., J. T. Dunlop, F. Arbison and C. A. Myers (1960) Industrialism and Industrial Man: The Problems of Labor and Management in Economic Growth, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
63. Kipping, M., and L. Engwall. (eds.) (2002) Management Consulting: Emergence and Dynamism of a Knowledge Industry, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
64. Kogut, B. (ed.) (1993) Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
65. Kogut, B., and D. Parkinson (1993) The diffusion of American organizing principles to Europe, in B. Kogut (ed.) Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 179-202.
66. Krugman, P. (1994) Competitiveness: a dangerous obsession, Foreign Affairs, 73, 2, 28-44.
67. Kwon, H.-k. (2004) Japanese employment relations in transition, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 25, 3, 325-45.
68. Lane, C. (1989) Management and Labour in Europe: The Industrial Enterprise in Germany, Britain and France, Aldershot: Edward Elgar.
69. Lane, C. (1997) ‘The governance of inter-firm relations in Britain and Germany: societal or dominance effects?, in R. Whitley and P. H. Kristensen (eds.) Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 62-85.
70. Lazonick, W. (1991) Business Organisation and the Myth of the Market Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
71. Liker, J. K., W. M. Fruin and P. S. Adler (1999) Bringing Japanese management to the United States: transplantation or transformation?, in J. K. Liker, W. M. Fruin and P. S. Adler (eds.) Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Management Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3-35.
72. Lorenz, E. (2000) Societal effects and the transfer of business practices to Britain and France, in M. Maurice and A. Sorge (eds.) Embedding Organizations: Societal Analysis of Actors, Organizations and Socio-Economic Context, Amsterdam: John Benjamin’s, 241-56.
73. Maurice, M., F., Sellier and J.J., Silvestre (1986) The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
74. Maurice, M., and A. Sorge (2000) Conclusions, in M. Maurice and A. Sorge (eds.) Embedding Organizations: Societal Analysis of Actors, Organizations and Socio-economic Context, Amsterdam: John Benjamin’s, 389-99.
75. Mayer, M., and R. Whittington (1999) Strategy, structure and ‘systemness’: national institu­tions and corporate change in France, Germany and the UK, 1950-1993, Organization Studies, 20, 6, 933-59.
76. Milkman, R. (1991) Japan’s California Factories: Labor Relations and Economic Globalisation, Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press.
77. Morgan, G. (2001) The multinational firm, in G. Morgan, P.H. Kristensen and R. Whitley (eds.) The Multinational Firm: Organizing across Institutional and National Divides, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-24.
78. Morgan, G. (2005) Multinationals and work, in S. Ackroyd, R. Batt, P. Thompson and P. S. Tolbert (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 555-76.
79. Morgan, G., P. H. Kristensen and R. Whitley (eds.) (2001) The Multinational Firm: Organizing across Institutional and National Divides, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
80. Morgan, G. and Y. Takahashi (2002) Shareholder value in the Japanese context, Competition and Change, 6, 2, 169-91.
81. Nelson, R. R. (ed.) (1993) National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
82. Olcott, G. (2008) Take-over and Non-take-over Firms in Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
83. Oliver, N., and B. Wilkinson (1992) The Japanisation of British Industry: New Developments in the 1990s (2nd edn.), Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
84. Ouchi, W. G. (1981) Theory Z: How American Business can Meet the Japanese Challenge, New York: Avon Books.
85. Palmer, G. (1996) Reviving resistance: the Japanese factory floor in Britain, Industrial Relations Journal, 27, 2, 129-43.
86. Pascale, R. T., and A. G. Athos (1982) The Art of Japanese Management, London: Allen Lane.
87. Petrella, R. (1996) Globalization and internationalization: the dynamics of the emerging world order, in R. Boyer and D. Drache (eds.) States Against Markets: The Limits of Globalization, London: Routledge, 62-83.
88. Pollert, A. (1999) Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Central Eastern Europe, London: Sage.
89. Redding, S. G. (1990) The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism, Berlin: de Gruyter.
90. Ritzer, G. (1993) The McDonaldization of Society, London: Sage.
91. Royle, T. (2005) The dominance effect and the five lane low road: multinational corporations in the Italian quick food service sector, mimeo, Department of Management, St Anthony’s College, National University of Ireland, Galway.
92. Rubery, J., and D., Grimshaw (2003) The Organization of Employment: An International Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
93. Sharpe, D.R. (1997) Managerial control strategies and sub-cultural processes: on the shop- floor in a Japanese manufacturing organisation in the UK, in S.A. Sackmann (ed.) Cultural Complexity in Organisations: Inherent Contrasts and Contradictions, London: Sage, 228-51.
94. Sharpe, D.R. (1998) Shop floor practices under changing forms of management control: a comparative ethnographic study, Ph.D. thesis, University of Manchester.
95. Sharpe, D.R. 2001. Globalization and change: organizational continuity and change within a Japanese multinational in the UK, in G. Morgan, P.H. Kristensen and R. Whitley (eds.) The Multinational Firm: Organizing across Institutional and National Divides, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 196-224.
96. Sklair, L. (2001) The Transnational Capitalist Class, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
97. Sklair, L. 2002. Globalization: Capitalism and Its Alternatives, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
98. Smith, C. (1990) How are engineers formed? Professionals, nation and class politics, Work, Employment and Society, 3, 4, 451-70.
99. Smith, C. (1996) Japan, the hybrid factory and cross-national organisational theory, Osterreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 3, Special Issue (Vernetzung und Vereinnahmung-Arbeit zwischen Internationalisierung und neuen Managementkonzepten), 105-30.
100. Smith, C. (2005) Beyond convergence and divergence: explaining variations in organizational prac­tices and forms, in S. Ackroyd, R. Batt, P. Thompson and P. S. Tolbert (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 602-25.
101. Smith, C., and T. Elger. (1997) International competition, inward investment and the restructuring of European work and industrial relations, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 3, 3, 279-304.
102. Smith, C., and T. Elger. (2000) The societal effects school and transnational transfer: the case of Japanese investment in Britain, in M. Maurice and A. Sorge (eds.) Embedding Organizations: Societal Analysis of Actors, Organizations and Socio-Economic Context, Amsterdam: John Benjamin’s, 225-39.
103. Smith, C., and T. Elger. (2002) The transferred workplace: towards a theory of work in the transnational firm, paper presented at the 18th European Group for Organization Studies colloquium, Barcelona, 4-6 July.
104. Smith, C., and P. Meiksins (1995) System, society and dominance effects in cross-national organisational analysis, Work, Employment and Society, 9, 2, 241-67.
105. Sorge, A. (1991) Strategic fit and the societal effect: interpreting cross-national comparisons of technology, organization and human resources, Organization Studies, 12, 2, 161-90.
106. Sorge, A., and M. Maurice (1993) The societal effect in the strategies of French and West German machine tool manufacturers, in B. Kogut (ed.) Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 75-95.
107. Streeck, W. (1992) National diversity, regime competition and institutional deadlock: pro­blems in forming a European industrial relations system, Journal of Public Policy, 12, 4, 301-30.
108. Sturdy, A. (2001) The global diffusion of customer service: a critique of cultural and institutional perspectives, Asia Pacific Business Review, 7, 3, 75-89.
109. Taylor, P., and P. Bain. (2005) ‘India calling from far away towns’: the call centre labour process and globalization, Work, Employment and Society, 19, 2, 261-82.
110. Thompson, P., and D. McHugh (2002) Work Organisations (3rd edn.), Basingstoke: Palgrave.
111. Tilly, C. (1995) Globalization threatens labor’s rights, International Labor and Working Class History, 47, 1-23.
112. Traxler, F., S. Blaschke and B. Kittel (2001) National Labour Relations in Internationalized Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
113. Vogel, E. (1979) Japan as No. 1: Lessons for America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
114. Wailes, N., G. Ramia and R. Lansbury (2003) Interests, institutions and industrial relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41, 4, 617-37.
115. Whitley, R. (1992a) Business Systems in East Asia: Firms, Markets and Societies, London: Sage.
116. Whitley, R. (ed.) (1992b) European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in Their National Contexts, London: Sage.
117. Whitley, R., and P.K. Kristensen. (eds.) (1997) Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
118. Whitley, R., and P.K. Kristensen (2005) How national are business systems? The role of states and complementary institu­tions in standardizing systems of economic coordination and control at the national level, in G. Morgan, R. Whitley and E. Moen (eds.) Changing Capitalisms? Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Systems of Economic Organization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 190-231.
119. Womack, J. D., P.T. Jones and D. Roos (1990) The Machine that Changed the World: The Triumph of Lean Production, New York: Rawson Associates.