The Americanisation of European Business

ISBN-13: 9780415171915 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str.

Matthias Kipping; Ove Bjarnar; Ove Byarnar

Opis

Fifty years on from the Marshall Plan, this volume describes the influence of the US management model on Europe after 1945. It examines institutions assisting in American efforts at a national and international level and analyzes in detail the reaction to the US productivity drive in a wide range of European companies, industries and countries.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 THE MARSHALL PLAN AND THE TRANSFER OF US MANAGEMENT MODELS TO EUROPE, Ove Bjarnar, Matthias Kipping; Chapter 2 FROM BUSINESS REFORM PROGRAMME TO PRODUCTION DRIVE, Jacqueline McGlade; Part 1 TRANSFER MECHANISMS AND CHANNELS; Chapter 3 THE EUROPEAN PRODUCTIVITY AGENCY, Bent Boel; Chapter 4 ‘OPERATION IMPACT’, Matthias Kipping; Chapter 5 US-OWNED MANUFACTURING AFFILIATES AND THE TRANSFER OF MANAGERIAL TECHNIQUES, John H. Dunning; Chapter 6 THE REGIONAL DISSEMINATION OF AMERICAN PRODUCTIVITY MODELS IN NORWAY IN THE 1950s AND 1960s, Rolv Petter Amdam, Ove Bjarnar; Part 2 THE TRANSFER PROCESS; Chapter 7 AMERICANISATION BEYOND THE MASS PRODUCTION PARADIGM, Jim Tomlinson, Nick Tiratsoo; Chapter 8 AMERICANISATION AND THE ‘SWEDISH MODEL’ OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Henrik Glimstedt; Chapter 9 THE LIMITS OF AMERICANISATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL, David W Ellwood; Part 3 THE TRANSLATION AND TRANSFORMATION; Chapter 10 AN AMERICANISED COMPANY IN GERMANY, Christian Kleinschmidt; Chapter 11 SELECTIVE ADAPTATION OF AMERICAN MANAGEMENT MODELS, CailluetLudovic; Chapter 12 LEARNING FROM AMERICA, Ruggero Ranieri; INDEX;

O autorze

Matthias Kipping is Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of Reading, Department of Economics., Ove Bjarnar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Moore Research Centre in Molde, Norway.