General
Resources
Restructuring,
Reengineering, Downsizing, Flattening
Knowledge
Work, Knowledge Management, Learning Organizations
The
Team Concept
The
Quality Movement
Outsourcing
"Flex-Timing":
Part-Time, Temp, Flexible Labor
Diversity
Management
The
Idea of "Corporate Culture"
The
Japanese Model
Business
& Globalism / Multinationalism
Business
& Technology
Consumerism
& Advertising
Management,
Organization, & Operations Science
Human
Resources Management
Postindustrial
Labor Relations
Business
Journals
Selected
Resources in Economics
- About
Work (info and resources on job searches, careers, work
from home, business start ups)
- Joseph
H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn, Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping
American Business (New York: Plume / Penguin, 1992)
- William H.
Davidow and Michael S. Malone, The Virtual Corporation: Structuring
and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century (New York:
HarperBusiness, 1992)
- Arif Dirlik,
"The Postmodernization of Production and Its Organization: Flexible
Production, Work and Culture," in The Postcolonial Aura: Third
World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism (Boulder, CO:
Westview, 1997), pp. 186-219
- Peter
Drucker
- "The Coming
of the New Organization," Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb.
1988: 46
- Management:
Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (New York: Harper &
Row, 1973)
- Post-Capitalist
Society (New York: HarperBusiness / HarperCollins, 1993)
- Peter
Schwartz, "Post-Capitalist"
(the Wired Magazine interview with Drucker)
- Michael Hammer
and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto
for Business Revolution (New York: HaerperBusiness, 1993)
- Larry Hirschhorn,
Beyond Mechanization: Work and Technology in a Postindustrial
Age (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984) (studies the evolution
of mechanical engineering principles and machine/worker relations
to provide a history of industrial automation based on such fundamental
machinic principles as "constraint," "flexibility," and "feedback";
uses the case of the accident at the Three Mile nuclear plant to
argue that postindustrial production has evolved beyond the inflexible
control and constraint parameters of earlier mechanization; closes
with first-hand research into newer "sociotechnical" organizations
oriented around team-work, "developmental learning," and other flexible
approaches to integrating workers and complex technical environments)
- William B.
Johnston and Arnold H. Packer, Workplace 2000: Work and Workers
for the 21st Century, prepared for the U. S. Department of Labor
(Indianapolis, Indiana: Hudson Institute, June 1987)
- Martin Kenney
and Richard Florida, Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System
and Its Transfer to the United States (New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1993)
- William Kuhns,
The Post-Industrial Prophets: Interpretations of Technology
(New York: Weybright and Talley, 1971)
- Timothy W.
Luke (Virginia Tech U.), From Analogue to Digital
Fordism
- John Micklethwait
and Adrian Wooldridge, The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the
Management Gurus (New York: Times Books / Random House, 1996,
1997) ("Shelley once claimed that poets are 'the unacknowledged
legislators of mankind.' Today that honor belongs to management
theorists," p. 3)
- N.Y.
Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library Page
- Christopher
Newfield (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Corporation H" (1997)
(Bodies, Inc.)
- Tom Peters,
Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond
Nineties (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992)
- Political
Economy Research Centre (PERC) ("multi-disciplinary research
on the current transformation of industrial societies and of the
global economic and political order") (Sheffield U., UK)
- Robert B.
Reich, The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century
Capitalism (New York: Vintage / Random House, 1991)
- Resources
of Scholarly Societies - Business (U. Waterloo)
- Don Tapscott,
The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked
Intelligence (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996)
- Robert M.
Tomasko, Downsizing: Reshaping the Corporation for the Future,
rev. ed. (New York: American Management Assoc., 1990)
- Bibliography
on Reegineering (annotated; but available only as a BibTeX database
via FTP) (IEEE Computer Society: Technical Council on Software Engineering
/ U. Stuttgart)
- Joseph H.
Boyett and Henry P. Conn, Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping
American Business (New York: Plume / Penguin, 1992)
- Michael Hammer
and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto
for Business Revolution (New York: HaerperBusiness, 1993)
- The
Horizontal Corporation: Flattening the Organization (bibliography;
"The following books and articles cover methods of delayering organizational
structure") (Jeffrey Michaels)
- Process
of Re-engineering (Office for Continuous Quality Improvement,
U. Maryland)
- Paul A. Strassman,
"The Hocus-Pocus of Reengineering"
(1996)
- Robert M.
Tomasko, Downsizing: Reshaping the Corporation for the Future,
rev. ed. (New York: American Management Assoc., 1990)
- Stanley Aronowitz
and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma
of Work (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1994) (esp.
Chap. 1, "The New Knowledge Work")
- (brief
excerpts) (cy.Rev #4: A Journal of Cybernetic Revolution,
Sustainable Socialism and Radical Democracy)
- @BRINT:
A Business Researcher's Interests -- Organizational Knowledge Management
& Organizational Learning (extensive bibliography and guide
to online resources on the topic of "knowledge work" and knowledge/learning
organaizations) (Yogesh Malhotra)
- "Canada
and the Knowledge-Based Economy" (1997) (IT and Knowledge-Based
Economy Summit / Strategis)
- Claudio U.
Ciborra and Leslie S. Schneider, "Transforming the Routines and
Contexts of Management, Work, and Technology," in P.
Adler (1992), pp. 269-91 (on "thinking" and "learning" organizations)
- R.E. Cole,
Strategies for Learning: Small Group Activities in American,
Japanese, and Swedish Industries (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California,
Press, 1989)
- Bob Davis
and David Wessel, Prosperity: The Coming Twenty-Year Boom and
What It Means to You (Time Business, 1998) (predicts the prosperity
of the American middle class due to technology, globalization, and
education; includes discussion of the pivotal role of community
colleges in the future)
- Charles
Derber, ed., Professionals as Workers: Mental Labor in Advanced
Capitalism (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982)
- Comprehensive
Reference List on Organisational Learning and Related Literatures
(with special focus on Team Learning) (Murat H. Polat, U. Wollongong,
Australia)
- James Courtney,
et al. (Texas A&M U.), "Lockean
Inquiring Organizations: Guiding Principles and Design Guidelines
for Learning Organizations"
- Tom Davenport,
"Coming Soon: The
CKO (Chief Knowledge Officer)" (1994) (Information Week Online)
- Marc Eisenstadt,
"The Knowledge Media
Generation" (Knowledge Media Institute, Open U., UK)
- John Paul
Fullerton, Review of
Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization
- IT and Knowledge-Based
Economy Summit, "Canada and the Knowledge-Based
Economy" (1997) (IT and Knowledge-Based Economy Summit / Strategis)
- Knowledge
Management Forum (Brian Newman)
- Annotated
Index of Papers on KM
- Bibliography
and Reviews
- Related
Sites
- Knowledge Garden
(online texts on business knowledge and learning) (Vision Nest Publishing)
- Knowledge
Inc. ("monthly executive newsletter that covers trends in
information technology, organizational learning and knowledge management";
articles from the first issue & ordering info)
- Knowledge
Management & Organizational Learning (extensive archive
of online texts and other resources) (Yogesh Malhotra / @Brint)
- E. Kronqvist
and H. Soini (U. Oulu, Finland), "Developing a Learning
Organization at the University Level")
- Kai Larsen,
et al., "Learning Organizations"
- Learning-Org
Dialog on Learning Organizations (brief digest of Senge's learning-organization
thesis) (Richard Karash)
- The
Learning Organizations Homepage (Kai Larsen)
- Learning
Organizations -- a Web Bibiliography
- Barbara Lepani
(U. Sydney), "Education in
the Information Society" (1995) ("mindware integrates the five
domains of culture, learning, technology, mind and organisation
into a new industry cluster")
- Lifelong
Learning Links (Jan Flake)
- Fritz Machlup
- The
Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States
(Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1962
- Knowledge:
Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance, 2
vols. (Princeton: Princeton U. Press)
- I.
Knowledge and Knowledge Production (1980)
- The
Branches of Learning (1982)
- Brook Manville
& Nathaniel Foote, "Harvest
Your Workers' Knowledge" (1996) ("Call it post-modern reengineering . . .
to make your organization perform, you'll have to build systems
that support knowledge--not data") (Datamation)
- MIT
Organizational Learning Network
- Touraj Nasseri
(TechnoVantage, Inc.), "Knowledge Leverage :
The Ultimate Advantage" (196) (@Brint)
- Ikujiro Nonaka
and Hirotaka Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese
Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1995)
- George Pr,
"Corporate
Knowledge Nettworks" (on "knowledge ecology," "knowledge architecture,"
and "communities of practice") (Knowledge Garden)
- Reflexions
of a Cyber Warrior: On Knowledge Management ("compilation
of key ideas from various published sources--academic and practitioner--that
create a mosaic of what I think about as the emergent definition
of Knowledge Management") (Yogesh Malhotra / @Brint)
- Michael Rogers
Rubin and Mary Taylor Huber, with Elizabeth Lloyd Taylor, The
Knowledge Industry in the United States, 1960-1980 (Princeton:
Princeton Univ. Press, 1986)
- Margaret Ryan,
"Human
Resource Management and the Politics of Knowledge: Linking the Essential
Knowledge Base of the Organization to Strategic Decision Making"
(1995) (Leadership & Organization Development Journal)
- Peter Senge
- The
Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
(New York: Doubleday, 1990)
- The
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies, Tools, and Connections
for Building a Learning Organization (site supporting Peter
Senge's book of this title, which is the follow-up to his influential
Fifth Discipline book on "learning organizations") (Peter
Senge, et al.)
- SLOW:
Stanford Learning Organization Web
- David Stern,
"Institutions and Incentives for Developing Work-Related Knowledge
and Skill," in P.
Adler (1992), pp. 149-86
- Thomas A.
Stewart
- Intellectual
Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations (New York: Currency
/ Doubleday, 1997)
- "The
Coins in the Knowledge Bank" (1996) (Fortune)
- "Trying
to Grasp the Intangible" (1995) ("Here's one way to put
a dollar value on corporate knowledge") (Fortune)
- "Mapping
Corporate Brainpower" (1995) (Fortune)
- Paul Strassmann,
Interview on Knowledge
Capital (1996) (Strassmann, Inc.)
- Karl E. Sveiby
- The
Knowledge Organisation
- "What
is Knowledge Management?"
- UK
Lifelong Learning (home page of the Individual Learning Division
of the UK Dept. for Education and Employment)
- UK
Lifelong Learning (page devoted to the new corporate doctrine
of "lifelong learning" as promoted by the UK government) (Individual
Commitment Division of the Department for Education and Employment,
UK)
- Peter Vogel,
"Know
Your Business: Build a Knowledgebase" (1996) (Datamation)
- What
is Knowledge Management? ("summaries of various descriptions
of knowledge management") (Knowledge Management Forum)
- Bob Willard
(IBM Canada), Ideas on "Learning Organizations"
(hypertext presentation of leading principles and quotations from
management theorists of the "learning organization" movement)
- Victoria Brown,
"The
Invisible Key to Success: Shadowy Groups Called Communities of Practice
Are Where Learning and Growth Happen. You Can't Control Them--But
They're Easy to Kill" (1996) (Fortune)
- Comprehensive
Reference List on Organisational Learning and Related Literatures
(With Special Focus On Team Learning) (Murat H. Polat, U. Wollongong,
Australia)
- J. Galegher,
et al., ed., Intellectual Teamwork: Social and Technological
Foundations of Cooperative Work (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1990)
- Jon R. Katzenbach
and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance
Organization (New York: HarperBusiness, 1994) [first pub. 1993]
- Susan Albers
Mohrman, Susan G. Cohen, and Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., Designing
Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work (San
Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1995)
- Kathleen Barker
and Kathleen Christensen, ed., Contingent Work: American Employment
Relations in Trasition (Ilr, 1998)
- Veronica Beechey
and Tessa Perkins, A Matter of Hours: Women, Part-Time Work,
and the Labour Market (Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press,
1987)
- Hans-Peter
Blossfeld and Catherine Hakim, ed., Between Equalization and
Marginalization: Women Working Part-Time in Europe and the United
States of America (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997)
- Buck Consultants,
Inc., Parental Leave: An Employer View (New York: Buck Consultants,
Inc., 1990)
- Bureau of
National Affairs, "Flexible Scheduling for Managers and Professionals:
New Work Arrangements for the 1990s," BNA Special Report Series
on Work & Family, no. 27 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National
Affairs, Inc.)
- Polly Callaghan
and Heidi Hartmann, Contingent Work: A Chartbook on Part-Time
and Temporary Employment (Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy
Institute, Institute for Women's Policy Research, 1991)
- Kathleen E.
Christensen, Flexible Staffing and Scheduling (New York:
The Conference Board, 1989)
- Committee
on Labor and Human Resources, Subcommittee on Labor, U.S. Senate,
Conference on the Growing Contingent Work Force: Flexibility
at the Price of Fairness? . . . February 8, 1994)
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1994)
- Christopher
Cook, "Temps -- The Forgotten Workers," The Nation, Jan.
21, 1994: 125-28
- Carl Davidson
and Marianne Bray, Women and Part Time Work in New Zealand: A
Contemporary Insight (Christchurch, New Zealand: Institute for
Social Research and Development, 1994)
- Erich Dederichs
- Part-Time
Work in the European Community: Laws and Regulations, trans.
Olive McKinley (Shankill, County Dublin, Ireland: European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions / Lanham,
MD: Unipub, 1991)
- and Eberhard
Khler, Part-Time Work in the European Community: The Economic
and Social Dimension (Dublin, Ireland: European Foundation
for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 1993)
- Chris de Neubourg,
"Part-Time Work: An International Quantitative Comparison," International
Labour Review 124 (1985): 5455-5562
- Ann Duffy
and Norene Pupo, Part-Time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work andFamily
(Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992)
- Virginia L.
duRivage, New Policies for the Part-Time and Contingent Workforce
(Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 1992)
- Ronald G.
Ehrenberg, et al., "Part-Time Employment in the United States,"
in Robert A. Hart, ed., Employment, Unemployment,and Labor Utilization
(Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988)
- Ellen Galinsky,
The Implementation of Flexible Time and Leave Policies: Observations
from European Employers (New York: Families and Work Institute,
1989)
- Barbara Garson,
The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the
Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past (1988; rpt.
NewYork: Penguin, 1989), Chap. 9 on "Piecework Professionals"
- Janet Gornick
and Jerry A. Jacobs, A Cross-National Analysis of the Wages of
Part-Time Workers: Evidence from the United States, United Kingdom,
Canada, and Australia (Syracuse, NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs, Syracuse Univ., 1994)
- Hilda Kahne,
Reconceiving Part-Time Work: New Perspectives for Older Workers
and Women (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985)
- Helen Lewis,
Part-Time Work: Trends and Issues, Women's Research and Employment
Initiatives Program (Canberra: Australian Government Pub. Service,
1990)
- Susan McRae,
Part-Time Work in the European Union: The Gender Dimension
(Dublin, Ireland: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living
and Working Conditions, 1995)
- Cynthia Negrey,
Gender, Time, and Reduced Work (Albany, NY: State Univ. of
New York Press, 1993)
- Barney Olmsted,
Job-Sharing, prepared by Barney Olmsted and the New Ways
to Work Job Sharing Project (San Francisco: New Ways to Work, 1980)
- Barney Olmsted
and Suzanne Smith
- Creative
a Flexible Workplace: How to Select & Manage Alternative
Work Options, 2nd ed. (New York: AMACOM, 1994)
- The
Job-Sharing Handbook (New York: Penguin, 1983)
- Managing
in a Flexible Workplace (New York: AMACOM, 1997)
- Part-Time
Work, 2 vols., Report V, Fifth Item on the Agenda, International
Labour Conference, 80th Session, 1993 (1-2) (Geneva: International
Labour Office, 1992-1993)
- Jeremy Rifkin,
The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the
Dawn of the Post-Market Era (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1995),
pp. 190-94 on "The New Reserve Army"
- Vicki Smith,
"Flexibility in Work and Employment: Impact on Women," Research
in the Sociology of Organizations 2 (1993): 195-216
- Brian
K. Steverson, "Temporary Employment and
the Social Contract" (Online Journal of Ethics)
- Temp
24-7 (an online magazine and resource center for temp workers
started in early 1998; the site has "attitude," as expressed in
such features as "Temp Tales of Terror" and an interactive combat
game named "Temps vs. Suits")
- Chris Tilly,
Short Hours, Short Shrift: Causes and Consequences of Part-Time
Work (Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 1992)
- Alexander
Wedderburn, ed., Part-Time Work (Dublin, Ireland: European
Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,
1995)
- Iris Randall
(Roah, West & Randall, Inc.), "The Art and Practice of
Learning Techniques to Manage Diversity" (1996) (Career Magazine)
- Business
Week
- Linda
Himelstein, "Breaking Through: How
Do Some Companies Help Women Get Ahead While So Many Miss the
Boat?" (1997)
- California
Newsreel: Documentary Videos on Racial Sensitivity and Diversity
Training (site includes descriptions of available videos from
the California Newsreel non-profit video production and distribution
center)
- Anthony Patrick
Carnevale and Susan Carol Stone, The American Mosaic: An In-Depth
Report on the Future of Diversity at Work (New York: McGraw-Hill,
1995)
- Claudia H.
Deutsch
- "Corporate
Diversity, in Practice: Networks and Accountability" (1996)
("But if training and quotas do not work, what does? The answer
for a growing number of companies is a carrot-and-stick approach
of leaning on management to promote minority employees . . .
") (LatinoLink / New York Times)
- "Diversity
Training: Just Shut Up and Hire" (1996) ("R. Roosevelt Thomas
Jr., a senior research fellow at the American Institute for
Managing Diversity, used to believe that prejudice could be
eradicated in Corporate America. Now, he has a more practical
goal: Make even prejudiced people promote talented women and
members of minorities whether they like them or not") (LatinoLink
/ New York Times)
- R. Dore, British
Factory-Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial
Relations (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1973)
- Economics
of Affirmative Action (Carl Gutirrez-Jones with Rita Raley,
U. California, Santa Barbara)
- Katharine
Esty, Richard Griffin, and Marcie Schorr Hirsch, Workplace Diversity:
A Manager's Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into
a Competitive Advantage (Holbrook, MA: Adams, 1995)
- "The
Faces of Business Are Changing" (Executive Issues, Wharton
School, U. Penn.)
- Lee Gardenswartz
and Anita Rowe
- Diverse
Teams at Work: Capitalizing on the Power of Diversity (Burr
Ridge, Illinois: Irwin, 1994)
- Managing
Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide
(Burr Ridge, Illinois: Irwin, 1993)
- Lewis Brown
Griggs and Lente-Louise Louw, ed., Valuing Diversity: New Tools
for a New Reality (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995)
- Philip R.
Harris and Robert T. Moran, Managing Cultural Differences: Leadership
Strategies for a New World of Business, 4th ed. (Houston, Texas:
Gulf Publishing, 1996)
- David Jamieson
and Julie O'Mara, Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity
Advantage (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991)
- William B.
Johnston and Arnold H. Packer, Workplace 2000: Work and Workers
for the 21st Century, prepared for the U. S. Department of Labor
(Indianapolis, Indiana: Hudson Institute, June 1987)
- Howard N.
Fullerton, Jr., "Labor Force Projections: The Baby Boom Moves On,"
Outlook 1990-2005, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department
of Labor, Bulletin 2402 (Washington D. C., U. S. Government Printing
Office, May 1992), pp. 29-42
- Joel Kotkin,
Tribes: How Race, Religion, and Identity Determine Success in
the New Global Economy (New York: Random House, 1992)
- Kenneth Labich
with Joyce E. Davis, "Making
Diversity Pay" (1996) (Fortune / John McNeill)
- Melissa Lauber,
"Diversity in
Workforce Produces Bottom Line Benefits" (Village Life)
- Marilyn Loden
and Judy B. Rosener, Workforce America! Managing Employee Diversity
as a Vital Resource (Homewood, Illinois: Business One Irwin,
1991)
- Iris Randall,
"The Art And
Practice Of Learning Techniques To Manage Diversity" (Career
Magazine)
- Pamela Schaeffer,
"Employers
Find Diversity Programs Must be 'Lived' " (Village Life)
- Teaching
Diversity Resources ("list of writings which address diversity
issues as they relate to various aspects of business and employment")
(Fisher C. of Business, Ohio State U.)
- R.
Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., Beyond Race and Gender: Unleashing the
Power of Your Total Work Force by Managing Diversity (New York:
AMACOM, 1991)
- Bruce C. Wearne
(Monash U., Australia), "The Rhetoric of
Diversity Salesmanship" (1997) (review essay on Bill Cope and
Mary Kalantzis's 1997 Productive Diversity: A New Australian
Model for Work and Management Annandale; "Post-modern rhetoric
is alive and well in industrial relations in Australia. It has found
its focus in diversity management a fast-growing and well-established
approach to management theory for businesses and organisations of
all sizes") (Sincronia)
- http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/depts/WDN/inside.html
(School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell U.)
- Arif Dirlik,
"The Postmodernization of Production and Its Organization: Flexible
Production, Work and Culture," in The Postcolonial Aura: Third
World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism (Boulder, CO:
Westview, 1997), pp. 186-219
- J. Martin,
"Stories and Scripts in Organizational Settings," in A.H. Hastorf
and A.M. Isen, ed., Cognitive Social Psychology (New York:
Elsevier-North Holland, 1982), pp. 225-305
- C. O'Reilly,
"Corporations, Culture, and Commitment: Motivation and Social Control
in Organizations," in M. Tushman, et al., eds., Management of
Organizations (New York: Harper and Row, 1989), pp. 285-303
- John Van Maanen
and Gideon Kunda, " 'Real Feelings': Emotional Expression and
Organizational Culture," Research in Organizational Behavior
11 (1989): 43-103 (study of corporate "cultural control" that focuses
on the two cases of the theme-park industry and a high-tech firm)
(Including
history of Japanese business)
- Masahiko Aoki
- and Ronald
Dore, ed., The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive
Strength (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994)
- and Hugh
Patrick, ed., The Japanese Main Bank System: Its Relevance
for Developing and Transforming Economies (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1994)
- R. Clark,
The Japanese Company (New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1979)
- R.E. Cole,
Strategies for Learning: Small Group Activities in American,
Japanese, and Swedish Industries (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California,
Press, 1989)
- M. Fruin,
Kikkoman: Company, Clan, and Community (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
Univ. Press, 1983)
- J. Hirschmeir
and T. Yui, The Development of Japanese Business, 2nd ed.
(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981)
- K. Imai, "Japan's
Corporate Networks," in Kumon
and Rosovsky
- C. Johnson
- "How to
Think about Economic Competition from Japan," Journal of
Japanese Studies 13 (2): 415-28
- MITI
and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press,
1982)
- Martin Kenney
and Richard Florida, Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System
and Its Transfer to the United States (New York: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1993)
- Shumpei Kumon,
"Japan as a Network Society," in Kumon
and Rosovsky
- Thomas P.
Lifson, "Innovation and Institutions: Notes on the Japanese Paradigm,"
in P.
Adler (1992), pp. 292-20 (overview of Japanese ways and institutions
of business that includes a history of Japanese business; particularly
interesting on the difference between the American and Japanese
ethos ["ethics"] of "networks," p. 314, and on the "identity management,"
p. 315)
- Y. Murakami,
"Ie Society as a Pattern of Civilization," Journal of Japanese
Studies 10 (2): 279-363
- Ikujiro Nonaka
and Hirotaka Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese
Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation (New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1995)
- D. Okimoto,
Between MITI and Market (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press,
1982)
- The Political
Economy of Japan, 3 vols., general editors, Yasuske Murakami
and Hugh T. Patrick (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1987-1992
- I. The
Domestic Transformation, ed. Kozo Yamamura and Yasukichi
Yasuba
- II. The
Changing International Context, ed. Takashi Inoguchi and
Daniel I. Okimoto
- III.
Cultural and Social Dynamics, ed. Shumpei Kumon and Henry
Rosovsky
- J. Roberts,
Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business (New York: Weatherhill,
1973)
- Haruo Shimada,
"The Perceptions and the Reality of Japanese Industrial Relations,"
in Thurow
(1984)
- L.
Thurow, ed., The Management Challenge: Japanese Views (Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1984)
- D.E. Westney,
Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer of Western Organizational
Patterns to Meiji Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press,
1987)
- M.Y. Yoshino
and T. Lifson, The Invisible Link: Japan's Sogo Shosha and the
Organization of Trade (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986)
- Nancy J. Adler,
(McGill U.), "Globalization
and Human Resources Management"
- Patrick J.
Buchanan, The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social
Justice Are Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy (New
York: Little Brown, 1998)
- Business
Monitor Online ("service dedicated to professionals and business
people involved in international trade and investment. The site
provides global coverage of legislation and regulations, corporate
finance, offshore finance, market analysis, economic analysis, risk
management, property, consultancy, and worldwide business news")
(Business Briefing Publishing Ltd.)
- Jonathan P.
Charkham, Keeping Good Company: A Study of Corporate Governance
in Five Countries (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994)
- Donald Chew,
ed., Studies in International Corporate Finance and Governance
Systems: A Comparison of the U.S., Japan, and Europe (New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1997)
- Couch-Stone
Symposium for 1997 (U. Maryland, College Park, April 10-13, 1997)
(conference on the relation between postmodern culture and the global
economic system) (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
- Kevin Danaher,
ed., Corporations Are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and
the Downsizing of the American Dream (Monroe, Maine: Common
Courage, 1996)
- William Greider,
One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
(New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, 1997)
- Arif Dirlik
- After
the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalism (Hanover, N.
H.: University Press of New England for Wesleyan Univ. Press,
1994)
- "The Global
and the Local" and "The Postmodernization of Production and
Its Organization: Flexible Production, Work and Culture," in
The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of
Global Capitalism (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997), pp. 84-104,
186-219
- Joel Kotkin,
Tribes: How Race, Religion, and Identity Determine Success in
the New Global Economy (New York: Random House, 1992)
- Hans Kng,
A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics (New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1998)
- Edward Luttwak,
Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy
(HarperCollins, 1999)
- Ali Mir and
Maya Yajnik (U. Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Uneven Development of
Places: From Bodyshopping to Global Assembly Lines" (Samar)
- Masao
Miyoshi, "A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism
and the Decline of the Nation-State," Critical Inquiry 19
(1993): 726-751
- Political
Economy Research Centre (PERC) ("multi-disciplinary research
on the current transformation of industrial societies and of the
global economic and political order") (Sheffield U., UK)
- Michael E.
Porter, ed., Competition in Global Industries (Boston, Mass.:
Harvard Business School, 1986)
- Juan Rada,
"Information Technology and the Third World," in Forester
(1985), pp. 571-89
- Robert Reich,
The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism
(New York: Vintage / Random House, 1992)
- San
Francisco Public Library International Trade Page
- Roy C. Smith
and Ingo Walter, Global Banking (New York: Oxford Univ. Press,
1996)
- George Soros,
The Crisis of Global Capitalism: (Open Society Endangered)
(Public Affairs, 1998)
- Gilles Willett,
"Global Communication:
A Modern Myth?" (1995) (Communicatio)
- World
History Archives: History of the World Economy (Haines Brown)
- Selected
Resources:
- World
Trade
- Corporations
- International
Finance Capital
- Paul
S. Adler, ed., Technology and the Future of Work (New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1992)
- Phil Agre
(U. Calif., San Diego), "Outsourcing
and You" (on the relation between outsourcing and information
technology)
- Robert Blauner,
Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry
(Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964) (controversial work arguing
from empirical studies that the automation evolves in some industrial
processes toward the emancipation, rather than alienation, of the
worker)
- Harry Braverman,
Labor and Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press,
1974) (the now classic work on technology and the "deskilling" of
the worker)
- Business
& Technology (The Technology Page)
- Centre
for Social Theory and Technology, Keele U. ("especially concerned
with themes that foreground the special nature of contemporary technology-organisation
systems") | Publications
- Arthur Francis,
New Technology at Work (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
- Bruce R. Guile
and James Brian Quinn, ed., Technology in Services: Policies
for Growth, Trade, and Employment (Washington, D.C.: National
Academy, 1988)
- Larry Hirschhorn,
Beyond Mechanization: Work and Technology in a Postindustrial
Age (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984) (studies the evolution
of mechanical engineering principles and machine/worker relations
to provide a history of industrial automation based on such fundamental
machinic principles as "constraint," "flexibility," and "feedback";
uses the case of the accident at the Three Mile nuclear plant to
argue that postindustrial production has evolved beyond the inflexible
control and constraint parameters of earlier mechanization; closes
with first-hand research into newer "sociotechnical" organizations
oriented around team-work, "developmental learning," and other flexible
approaches to integrating workers and complex technical environments)
- Industry
& Technology (The Technology Page)
- The
Information Economy: The Economics of the Internet, Information
Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues (Hal R. Varian,
School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley)
- Information
Technology Industry Organizations (U.S. National Information
Infrastructure Virtual Library)
- International
Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT) Newsletter
- Intranets (Jeffrey
MacKie-Mason, U. Michigan)
- Intranets:
Readings and Resources (Carolyn Kotlas, MSLS Institute for Academic
Technology)
- Christopher
V. Jones (U. Washington School of Business Administration), "Visualization
and Modeling" | References
(extensive hypertext bibliography)
- Knowledge
Inc. ("monthly executive newsletter that covers trends in
information technology, organizational learning and knowledge management";
articles from the first issue & ordering info)
- Robert
E. Kraut, ed., Technology and the Transformation of White-Collar
Work (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987)
- Ali Mir and
Maya Yajnik (U. Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Uneven Development of
Places: From Bodyshopping to Global Assembly Lines" (Samar)
- Project2000: Research Program on
Marketing in Computer Mediated Environments (Owen Graduate School
of Management, Vanderbilt U.)
- Lee
Sproull and Sara Kiesler, Connections: New Ways of Working in
the Networked Organization (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991)
(study of group work dynamics in an email-saturated and networked
environment; prescribes "organizational cosmopolitanism" founded
in part on establishing "diverse" rather than homogenous forums
of electronic communication; see pp. 159-75)
- Staying
Alive: Labor in the Global Information Economy (articles and
links) (Corporate Watch)
- Selected
Resources:
- David
Bacon, Organizing
Silicon Valley's High Tech Workers
- Labour
and the Internet: The Others/Periphery (summary of a 1997
seminar moderated by Jagdish Parikh and Roberto Verzola)
- Paul A. Strassmann,
Information Payoff: The Transformation of Work in the Electronic
Age (New York: Free Press, 1985)
- Don Tapscott,
The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked
Intelligence (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996)
- Roberto Verzola,
"Towards A Political Economy
of Information" (1995) (SoliNet)
- Shoshana
Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and
Power (New York: Basic Books, 1988) (important study of the
computerization of industry and the office in the mainframe age;
uses extensive interviews with workers and managers to argue that
hierarchical control methods designed for earlier industrial automation
conflict fundamentally with the nature of "informated" work; of
particular interest to humanities scholars is Zuboff's focus on
the "body" of the white-collar worker as the register of industrial
changes and her use of Foucault's "panopticon" paradigm to describe
the struggle between informating and controlling the workplace)
- Advertising
(Daniel Chandler, U. Wales, Aberystwyth)
- Advertising
Age
- Advertising
Studies (Communication Studies, U. Iowa)
- Advertising
World: The Ultimate Marketing Communications Directory (Dept.
of Advertising, U. Texas, Austin)
- Bibliography:
Consumer Culture and Leisure (Don Slater, U. London)
- Communication
Arts: Exhibit Online (state of the art advertising) (Coyne &
Blanchard, Inc.)
- Thomas Frank,
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the
Rise of Hip Consumerism (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1997)
(study of the "Creative Revolution" in advertising in the '60s that
prefigured such later business philosophies as decentralization)
- The
Gallery of Advertising Parody (Sharrow & Associates)
- Good/No-Good
Web Advertising Sites ("This page critically reviews/evaluates
Web advertising sites of companies in different business categories")
(graduate students at U. Texas, Austin, School of Advertising)
- John
W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
(Duke U. Special Collections Library)
- History
of TV Advertising (Advertising Age)
- Marketing
Science (Informs: Institute for Operations Research and
the Management Sciences)
- The
Media Glossary (dictionary of advertising and media terms) (Cowles
New Media)
- Placing
(a series of product "epiphanies" demonstrating the thesis that
contemporary "placing" [product placements in movies, TV shows,
and sporting events] "captures the essence of a new kind of selfhood
for the '90s. No longer do people attempt to define themselves through
the products they consume, best exemplified by the wanton excess
and spectacle of the last decade. Instead, people define themselves
in relation to the products that are ever-present in their everyday
lives - they make meaning and significance of the multiple interdependences
between themselves, others, and name-brand products. . . . Branding
is corporate; placing is populist and personal") (Carl Steadman)
- Project2000: Research Program on
Marketing in Computer Mediated Environments (Owen Graduate School
of Management, Vanderbilt U.)
- WebRep
History af Advertising (on 19th-C. advertising)
- Studies,
Critiques, Statistics
- Stanley
Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler, ed., Post-Work (New York:
Routledge, 1998)
- Stanley
Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech
and the Dogma of Work (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press,
1994) (esp. Chap. 1, "The New Knowledge Work")
- (brief
excerpts) (cy.Rev #4: A Journal of Cybernetic Revolution,
Sustainable Socialism and Radical Democracy)
- Albert
Benschop (U. Amsterdam), Bibliography
on the Concept of Labor (extensive list; includes many European
works)
- Ian Benson
and John Lloyd, New Technology and Industrial Change
(London: Kogan Page, 1983)
- Robert
Blauner, Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His
Industry (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964) (controversial
work arguing from empirical studies that the automation evolves
in some industrial processes toward the emancipation, rather
than alienation, of the worker; important work in the "de-skilling"
debate)
- Harry
Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly
Review Press, 1974) (the now classic work of Marxist scholarship
on technology and the "deskilling" of the worker; has set the
agenda of the "de-skilling" debate)
- Bureau
of Labor Statistics (U. S. Dept. of Labor)
- California
Newsreel: Documentary Videos on Labor Studies, Industrial Relations,
Economic Democracy and Management (site includes descriptions
of available videos from the California Newsreel non-profit
video production and distribution center)
- Catherine
Casey, Work, Self, and Society: After Industrialization
(New York: Routledge, 1995)
- Carl Cuneo
(McMaster U.), Trade Unions and Gender
(course)
- W.W. Daniels,
Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change (London:
Francis Pinter, 1987)
- Diane
Fassel, Working Ourselves to Death: The High Cost of Work
Addiction and the Rewards of Recovery (San Francisco: Harper
& Row, 1990)
- Anne B.
Fisher, "Welcome to the Age of Overwork," Fortune 30
(Nov. 1992)
- Barbara
Garson, The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming
the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past (1988;
rpt. NewYork: Penguin, 1989)
- Joan Greenbaum,
Windows on the Workplace: Computers, Jobs, and the Organization
of Office Work in the Late Twentieth Century (New York:
Monthly Review Press, 1995)
- Arlie
Russell Hochschild, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home
and Home Becomes Work (New York: Henry Holt, 1997)
- Journal
of Management History: Issue on Taylorism (MCB University
Press)
- Thomas
Kochan, Harry Katz, and Robert McKersie, The Transformation
of American Industrial Relations (New York: Basic, 1987)
- Nelson
Lichtenstein, "The Union's Early Days: Shop Stewards and Seniority
Rights," in Parker
and Slaughter (1988), pp. 65-73
- Management
and Labor Page (LC Marvel Gopher)
- Roderick
Martin, New Technology and Industrial Relations in Fleet
Street (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981)
- Ali Mir
and Maya Yajnik (U. Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Uneven Development
of Places: From Bodyshopping to Global Assembly Lines" (Samar)
- Negotiating
Technological Change, a Review of Trade Union Approaches to
New Technology in Europe (Brussels: European Trade Union
Institute, 1982)
- Max Ogden,
"Union Initiatives to Restructure Industry in Australia," in
P.
Adler (1992), pp. 232-68
- Leslie
A. Perlow, Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and
Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell Univ. Press, 1997)
- Michael
Poole, Worker Participation in Industry (London: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1975)
- Jeremy
Rifkin, The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor
Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era (New York: G.
P. Putnam, 1995)
- (course)
Richard Ruppel (Viterbo C., Wisconsin), The
Literature of Work ("traces the development of the modern
concepts of 'work' and 'working people' . . .
beginning in Colonial America and Victorian England and ending
with contemporary American film")
- Haruo
Shimada, "The Perceptions and the Reality of Japanese Industrial
Relations," in Thurow
(1984)
- Juliet
B. Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline
of Leisure (1992; rpt. New York: BasicBooks / HarperCollins,
1993)
- Talent
Alliance (non-profit coalition of major corporations, industry
and trade associations, professional services firms, government
representatives, and educational communities providing "research
into technology and workplace trends, future skills requirements,
and evolving jobs; support systems for career planning; education
and training opportunities for new skills development; and a
process . . . for matching the right applicants
with the right jobs"; initiated by AT&T in the wake of its
experience with restructuring)
- Robert
J. Thomas and Thomas A. Kochan, "Technology, Industrial Relations,
and the Problem of Organizational Transformation," in P.
Adler (1992), pp. 210-31
- Barry
Wilkinson, The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology (London:
Heinemann, 1983)
- World
History Archives: Working Class and Labor History in the U.S.
(Haines Brown)
- WWW
Virtual Library: Labour and Business History (The International
Institute of Social History / The Netherlands Economic History
Archive)
- From
the Viewpoint of Labor (see
also Workers
Criticize Business)
- Industrial
Workers of the World (includes links to other Wobbly pages)
- International
Assoc. of Machinists, "Workers' Technology Bill of Rights,"
in democracy (Spring 1983)
- International
Labour Organization (in English, French, or Spanish)
- International
Newsletter International Assoc. of Labour History Institutions
- LaborNet
("works to support human rights and economic justice for workers
by providing Internet services, labor news and information,
Internet training, and Web site design for unions") (Institute
for Global Communications)
- Mike
Parker and Jane Slaughter, Choosing Sides: Unions and the
Team Concept (Detroit: Labor Notes / South End Press, 1988)
- SoliNet:
The Solidarity Network ("resource and meeting place for
unionists and supporters of the labour movement . . .
owned by CUPE, the Canadian Union of Public Employees")
- Staying
Alive: Labor in the Global Information Economy (articles
and links) (Corporate Watch)
- Selected
Resources:
- David
Bacon, Organizing
Silicon Valley's High Tech Workers
- Labour
and the Internet: The Others/Periphery (summary of a
1997 seminar moderated by Jagdish Parikh and Roberto Verzola)
- TimeWork
Web ("official home page of the Shorter Work Time Network
of Canada")
- TimeWork
Web Policy Proposal for Canada ("what if we could put
together a modest, easy-to-implement plan to enable employers
to voluntarily reduce their use of overtime and create new
jobs at no cost to the employer or the taxpayer?")