TY - BOOK AU - Blyton,Paul AU - Clarke,Thomas AU - Dastmalchian,Ali AU - Franz,Hans-Werner AU - Gasteen,Anne AU - Glimell,Hans AU - Holmes,John AU - Malloch,Hedley AU - McKinlay,Alan AU - McNulty,Des AU - Morris,Jonathan AU - O’Connell Davidson,Julia AU - Rainnie,Al AU - Reed,Michael I. AU - Sloane,Peter J. AU - Starkey,Ken AU - Turnbull,Peter AU - Ursell,Gillian D. AU - Walsh,Tim AU - Whitaker,Marian AU - Winterton,Jonathan TI - A Flexible Future?: Prospects for Employment and Organization T2 - de Gruyter Studies in Organization SN - 9783110124347 U1 - 331.25 PY - 2017///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Industrial management KW - Congresses KW - Labor contract KW - Flexibilität KW - Kongress KW - Organisation KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; List of tables --; List of figures --; Chapter 1. A Flexible Future: Aspects of the Flexibility Debates and Some Unresolved Issues --; Chapter 2. The End of Organized Society: A Theme in Search of a Theory --; Chapter 3. Flexible Specialisation: New Times or Old Hat? --; Chapter 4. Primary Flexibility — the Flexible Firm and its Determinants --; Chapter 5. Going Flexible: The Penetration of New Management Practices and a New Workplace Politics in Sweden --; Chapter 6. Imaginative Flexibility in Production Engineering: The Volvo Uddevalla Plant --; Chapter 7. From Uniformity to Diversity: Changing Patterns of Wages and Work Practices in the North American Automobile Industry --; Chapter 8. Between Control and Consent?: Corporate Strategy and Employee Involvement in Ford U.K. --; Chapter 9. Buyer — Supplier Relations in the UK Automotive Industry --; Chapter 10. Strategic Management and the Decision to Subcontract --; Chapter 11. Towards Flexibility: Technical Change and Buyer Supplier Relationships in the British Clothing Industry --; Chapter 12. Subcontract, Flexibility and Changing Employment Relations in the Water Industry --; Chapter 13. Quality Strategies and Workforce Strategies in the European Iron and Steel Industry --; Chapter 14. Flexibility, New Technology and British Coal --; Chapter 15. Open Secrets and Hidden Agendas: Working Time, Flexibility and Industrial Relations in British Engineering --; Chapter 16. Human Resource Management and Labour Flexibility: Some Reflections Based on Cross-National and Sectoral Studies in Canada and the UK --; Chapter 17. Workplace Flexibility in Professional Organizations: A Study of Canadian Hospitals --; Chapter 18. The Reshaping of 'Flexible' Labour?: European Policy Perspectives --; List of Contributors --; Backmatter; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110863345 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110863345 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110863345/original ER -