Exporting the American model : the post-war transformation of European business /
Marie-Laure Djelic explores trends in the evolution of business systems and organization in Western Europe in the post-war period. She examines in particular the influence of the American corporate model on European business methods and ideology.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Cross-National Transfer: Structural Types. 1. The American Structural Revolution: Inventing the Corporate System of Industrial Production. 2. Stability of European Industries: Preserving Structural Arrangements before 1939
- Pt. II. Cross-National Transfer: Conditions, Channels, and Actors. 3. Crisis Inside, Dependence Outside: Preconditions of a Cross-National Transfer. 4. Actors and Institutional Channels: Emergence of a Cross-National Modernizing Network
- Pt. III. Cross-National Transfer: Mechanisms. 5. Voluntary Imitation: Adopting the Corporate Model in France. 6. From Coercion to Imitation: Transplanting the Corporate Model to West Germany. 7. From Control to Conversion: Embedding the Corporate Model in Western Europe
- Pt. IV. Cross-National Transfer: National Limits. 8. The Resistance of European Business: Organized Opposition to Structural Transformations. 9. European Labor and Productivity: Between All-Out War and Active Participation.