This
page is a guide for the humanist to the postindustrial and neo-corporatist
paradigms of "knowledge work" now making "lifelong learning" and "pay
for knowledge" (rather than the humanities) the dominant "life of the
mind."
GENERAL
BUSINESS INFORMATION & THEORY RESOURCES
SELECTED
RESOURCES IN ECONOMICS
RESTRUCTURING,
REENGINEERING, DOWNSIZING, FLATTENING
KNOWLEDGE
WORK, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, & LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
THE
TEAM CONCEPT
THE
QUALITY MOVEMENT
OUTSOURCING
DIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS
& GLOBALISM / MULTINATIONALISM
BUSINESS
& TECHNOLOGY
MANAGEMENT,
ORGANIZATION, & OPERATIONS SCIENCE
HUMAN
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
CONSUMERISM
& ADVERTISING
BUSINESS
ETHICS / BUSINESS & SOCIETY
THEORY
OF PROFESSIONS & PROFESSIONALISM
BUSINESS
& ACADEME
ANTI-POSTINDUSTRIALISM,
ANTI-NEOCORPORATISM
LABOR
RELATIONS, STATISTICS, & HISTORY
BUSINESS
HISTORY
HISTORY
OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (on Sci-Tech & Culture Page)
BUSINESS
JOURNALS
BUSINESS
SCHOOLS
MAJOR
CORPORATION HOME PAGES
WORLD=MALL
- About
Work (info and resources on job searches, careers, work
from home, business start ups)
- Timothy W.
Luke (Virginia Tech U.), From Analogue to Digital
Fordism
- N.Y.
Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library Page
- Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation -- Teaching the Humanities in a
Restructured World (the bibliography includes sections on the
history, sociology, theory, and criticism of business) (Alan Liu,
U. California, Santa Barbara)
- 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)
- Resources
of Scholarly Societies - Business (U. Waterloo)
- Thorsten Veblen,
The
Theory of Business Enterprise (McMaster U.)
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- General
Resources
- Texts
- 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)
- 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)
- 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")
- 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)
- Touraj
Nasseri (TechnoVantage, Inc.), "Knowledge Leverage
: The Ultimate Advantage" (196) (@Brint)
- 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)
- 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)
- Thomas
A. Stewart
- "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?"
- 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)
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Home Page)
- 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)
- 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)
- "The
Faces of Business Are Changing" (Executive Issues, Wharton
School, U. Penn.)
- Kenneth Labich
with Joyce E. Davis, "Making
Diversity Pay" (1996) (Fortune / John McNeill)
- Melissa Lauber,
"Diversity in
Workforce Produces Bottom Line Benefits" (Village Life)
- Iris Randall,
"The Art And
Practice Of Learning Techniques To Manage Diversity" (Career
Magazine) clean
- Pamela Schaeffer,
"Employers
Find Diversity Programs Must be 'Lived' " (Village Life)
- Workplace
Diversity Network (School of Industrial and Labor Relations,
Cornell U.)
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- Nancy J. Adler,
(McGill U.), "Globalization
and Human Resources Management"
- 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.)
- 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)
- Ali Mir and
Maya Yajnik (U. Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Uneven Development of
Places: From Bodyshopping to Global Assembly Lines" (Samar)
- 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)
- San
Francisco Public Library International Trade Page
- 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
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Home Page)
- Phil Agre
(U. Calif., San Diego), "Outsourcing
and You" (on the relation between outsourcing and information
technology)
- Jeffrey Balash,
"A Blinding
Glimpse of the Obvious Goes Unseen" (1996) ("many senior managers
appear determined to ignore and to shy away from seizing these new
[technological] tools") (Educom Review)
- 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
- 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)
- 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.)
- 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)
- Roberto Verzola,
"Towards A Political Economy
of Information" (1995) (SoliNet)
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- 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.)
- 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)
- Political
Advertising Articles and Resources (Communication Studies, U.
Iowa)
- Project2000:
Research Program on Marketing in Computer Mediated Environments
(Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt U.)
- WebRep
History af Advertising (on 19th-C. advertising)
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Home Page)
- Business
Ethics Resources on WWW (Centre for Applied Ethics, U. British
Columbia)
- Center
for Ethics, Capital Markets, and Political Economy ("The basic
idea is that the concepts and vocabulary of economics no longer
incorporate the moral standards according to which most people live
their lives. This has caused ways of thinking and acting to evolve
in the finance and public policy arenas which no longer connect
with the general moral consensus") (U. Virginia)
- Ethics
Resource Center ("nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization
visioning an ethical world through three distinct areas of expertise:
business/organizational ethics consulting; character education;
and, ethics information clearinghouse"; most resources must be ordered)
- Charles M.
Horvath, "Macro and Micro:
The Emerging Field of Organizational Ethics" (Online Journal
of Ethics)
- John F. Hulpke
(Calif. State U., Bakersfield), Business and Society (course)
- Institute
for Business & Professional Ethics (DePaul U.)
- Institute
for Global Ethics ("independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, and
nonpartisan organization")
- On-Line
Journal of Ethics ("cutting edge research in the field of
business & professional ethics")
- Jon M. Shepard,
et al. (R.B. Pamplin C. of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.),
"Teaching Business
Ethics Through Literature" (Online Journal of Ethics)
- Brian K. Steverson,
"Temporary Employment and
the Social Contract" (Online Journal of Ethics)
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- CAUSE:
The Assoc. for Managing and Using Information Resources in Higher
Education
- Cause/Effect
("a practitioner's journal for college and university managers and
users of information resources) (CAUSE)
- CAUSE Current
Issues Committee, "Current
Issues for Higher Education Information Resources Management" (1997)
(Cause/Effect)
- CQI-Related
Resources in Higher Education (Office for Continuous Quality
Improvement, U. Maryland)
- Robert C.
Heterick (ed), Reengineering
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Sheltered Groves, Camelot,
Windmills, and Malls (253K text file) (CAUSE Professional
Paper Series)
- E. Kronqvist
and H. Soini (U. Oulu, Finland), "Developing a Learning
Organization at the University Level")
- Palinurus:
The Academy and the Corporation -- Teaching the Humanities in a
Restructured World (site created to encourage critical thought
about the corporatization of higher education and the relation between
academic"knowledge" and postindustrial "knowledge work"; currently
includes "Featured Controversies," "Suggested Topics," and a hypertext
bibliography of print and online resources on the idea of postindustrial
business, the idea of the university, and the juggernaut of information
technology running between the two) (Alan Liu, U. California, Santa
Barbara)
- James H. Porter,
"Business
Reengineering in Higher Education" (1993) (file also includes
Mark Olson, "We Must Apply the Principles of Business Reengineering
in Higher Education") (Cause/Effect)
- Clifford Siskin,
"The Business
of Romanticism" (1997) ("the particular configuration of genres
we call Literature is, in fact, a specific historical instance of
a larger category--the technology of writing") (Romantic Circles)
- Herbert F.
W. Stahlke (Ball State U., Indiana) and James M. Nyce (Emporia State
U., Kansas), "Reengineering
Higher Education: Reinventing Teaching and Learning" (1996)
(Cause/Effect)
- Carol A. Twigg
(SUNY Empire State C), "Improving
Productivity in Higher Education - The Need for a Paradigm Shift"
(1992) (Cause/Effect)
- Ellen D. Wagner
(U. Northern Colorado), "The
Technology Aside: Building a Strategic Plan to Strengthen Academic
Programs" (1994) (Cause/Effect)
- Corporate
/ Academic Educational Collaborations
- Michigan
Virtual Automotive College ("brings courses and training
programs to those who work in the automotive industry")
- UAW-Ford
University: Education for the 21st Century ("vital learning
environment for UAW-Ford employees that will enhance their educations
and give Ford the competitive edge it needs in a tough industry")
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- http://www.myboss.com/("Overworked?
Underpaid? Stressed out? Had enough of the team, the mission, company
values? Caught up in downsizing, rightsizing, optimizing?") (alotta.edu,
Inc.)
- Layoff
Scoreboard
- Statistics
of Pain (stats and definitions of "unemployed," "new entrants,"
"temporary layoffs," "reentrants," etc.)
- Corporate
Watch ("web site dedicated to helping build greater democratic
control over transnational corporations at the local, national and
international levels. . . . designed to provide you--every
day Internet users, activists, journalists and policy makers--with
an array of tools that you can use to investigate and analyze corporate
activity") (Transnational Resource and Action Center / Institute
for Global Communications)
- The
Corporation (parody of corporate newsletters; sample: "Quality
Control Employees should return PERIODICALLY for new assignments.
Failure to return will result in termination and dreams involving
your junior high teachers")
- The
Dilbert Zone (Scott Adams / United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
- Disgruntled:
The Business Magazine for People who Work for a Living ("magazine
that combines news, feature, satire and commentary about the darker
side of the world of work") (Daniel S. Levine, editor; Counterpoint
Press, Inc.)
- Selected
Articles:
- "A
Call For A National Commission On Downsizing From The National
Employee Rights Institute"
- Erika
Schelby, A
Bestiary for Business Adapted from the Fables of Aesop for Gentle
Corporate Readers and Raiders: DOWNSIZING: An Aesop Fable Retold
- Brian
S. McWilliams, A
Conversation With Bruce Tulgan, Author of Managing Generation
X: Bringing out the Best in Young Talent
- Daniel
S. Levine, A
Conversation With Martin Sprouse, Author of Sabotage
("Published in 1992, Sabotage is a collection of anecdotes from
American workers in all types of jobs who tell their stories
of how they used sabotage to get even, bring about change, supplement
their too-small salaries or just shatter the painful boredom
of their work")
- James
Howard O'Leary,Tales of Corporate Horror
(1992) (fiction)
- Alan Downs,
Corporate Executions:
The Ugly Truth About Layoffs
- Don's
Boss Page ("the only web site designed to protect those surfing
the net from their workplaces or schools"; puts up an image of a
spreadsheet in your browser window; tips on "stealth surfing," etc.)
- "The
Economy and Its Impact on the Religious Right" ("the great American
middle class is furious. . . . Increasingly it sees
its wealth and societal ethic under attack from both a globalist
and multicultural Meritocracy above it, and an amoral and destructive
Underclass below it") (Institute for the Study of Religion in Politics)
- 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")
- Working
Today (non-profit worker advocacy group that provides moral
and practical support for downsized, laid-off, independent, and
other workers)
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- Stanley Aronowitz
and William DiFazio, The
Jobless Future (1994) (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)
- 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)
- Canadian
Committee on Labour History
- Carl Cuneo
(McMaster U.), Trade Unions and Gender
(course)
- An
Eclectic List of Events in U.S. Labor History (allen h. lutins)
- Industrial
Workers of the World (includes links to other Wobbly pages)
- International
Assoc. of Labour History Institutions (International Institute
of Social History, Amsterdam)
- International
Institute of Social History, Amsterdam ("world's largest documentary
and research institutions in the field of social history in general
and the history of the labour movement in particular")
- International
Labour Organization (in English, French, or Spanish)
- International
Newsletter International Assoc. of Labour History Institutions
- Journal
of Management History: Issue on Taylorism (MCB University
Press)
- 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)
- Management
and Labor Page (LC Marvel Gopher)
- Ali Mir and
Maya Yajnik (U. Massachusetts, Amherst), "The Uneven Development of
Places: From Bodyshopping to Global Assembly Lines" (Samar)
- (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")
- 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)
- Brian K. Steverson,
"Temporary Employment and
the Social Contract" (Online Journal of Ethics)
- 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)
- 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?")
- 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)
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- Business
History
- Business
History Archives (K. Austin Kerr, Ohio State U.)
- Business
History at Ohio State U. | Links for Business
Historians
- Business
History Society of Japan (in English & Japanese) (Takau
Yoneyama, Kyoto Sangyo U.)
- Centre
for International Business History (U. Reading) | Business History Links
- The
Evolution of Management (slide lecture from course on management
and organizational behavior) (Eric Hoppenfeld, San Francisco State
U.)
- John
W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
(Duke U. Special Collections Library)
- The
History Factory ("an organization of archivists, professional
historians and commmunication specialists working for the competitive
advantage of business. We help corporations use their past to cultivate
their present and create their future"; provides companies with
exhibit design, anniversary programming, archival management, editorial,
video, and living-history services)
- Journal
of the Business History Conference
- Museum
of American Financial History (New York, NY) ("chronicling the
history of America's capital markets")
- Subject
Guide to Business History (U. Maryland at College Park Libraries)
- The
Frederick W. Taylor Project (project that is "preserving and
disseminating the F. W. Taylor Collection at the Stevens Institute
of Technology by establishing the on-line Taylor archive")
- WWW
Virtual Library: Labour and Business History (The International
Institute of Social History / The Netherlands Economic History Archive)
- History
of Individual Companies
- History
of Individual Companies (Business History at Ohio State
U.)
- Ford
Motor Co. Historical Library
- Mobil:
History (Mobil)
- Standard
Oil of Ohio (Now BP): An Outline History (BP)
- Union
Pacific Railroad History
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