Embedding Organizations: Societal Analysis of Actors, Organizations and Socio-economic Context (Advances in Organization Studies)

445 Pages·2000·0.89 MB·English

by  Marc Maurice

EMBEDDING ORGANIZATIONS
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Stewart Clegg
School of Management
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University of Mannheim
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Volume 4
Marc Maurice and Arndt Sorge (eds)
Embedding Organizations
Societal analysis of actors, organizations and socio-economic context
Embedding
Organizations
Societal Analysis of Actors, Organizations
and Socio-Economic Context
Edited by
MARC MAURICE
Laboratoire d’économie et de sociologie du travail, Aix-en-Provence
ARNDT SORGE
University of Groningen
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Embedding organizations : societal analysis of actors, organizations, and socio-economic context /
edited by Marc Maurice, Arndt Sorge.
p. cm. -- (Advances in organization studies, ISSN 1566-1075 ; 4)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Economics--Sociological aspects. 2. Sociology--Study and teaching. 3. Political science--Study
and teaching. I. Maurice, Marc. II. Sorge, Arndt. III. Series.
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Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1
General introduction 1
Marc Maurice and Arndt Sorge
PART I. THEORY, METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY 7
Introduction 9
Chapter 2
The paradoxes of societal analysis. A review of the past and prospects for 13
the future
Marc Maurice
Chapter 3
The diabolical dialectics of societal effects 37
Arndt Sorge
Chapter 4
Societal or systems effects? 57
Erhard Friedberg
Chapter 5
Towards a relational approach to the study of variety in the situated 71
creativity of economic actors
Olav Korsnes
Chapter 6
The implications of ‘societal analysis’ for a programme of research 89
Jean-Michel Berthelot
Chapter 7
Theoretical problems in international comparisons: Towards a reciprocal 101
improvement of societal analysis and régulation theory by methodic
structuralism
Bruno Théret
Chapter 8
Positivist, hermeneutical and postmodern positions in the comparative 117
management debate
Niels G. Noorderhaven
vi TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART II. THE ECONOMY 139
Introduction 141
Chapter 9
The contribution of societal analysis to the economic theory of the firm 143
François Sellier
Chapter 10
Explaining changes in institutional frameworks: Societal patterns of 167
business coordination
David Soskice
PART III. THE ENTERPRISE 185
Introduction 187
Chapter 11
Understanding the globalization strategies of German and British 189
multinational companies: Is a ‘societal effects’ approach still useful?
Christel Lane
Chapter 12
The evolution of teamwork at Rover: Societal, sectoral and organizational 209
explanations
Frank U. Mueller
Chapter 13
The societal effects school and transnational transfer: The case of 225
Japanese investment in Britain
Chris Smith and Tony Elger
Chapter 14
The transfer of business practices to Britain and France 241
Edward Lorenz
Chapter 15
Society, organization and work in China 257
Malcolm Warner
PART IV. GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC SERVICES 273
Introduction 275
Chapter 16
Deregulation and societal systems 277
Philip Almond and Jill Rubery
TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
Chapter 17
Do we compare societies when we compare national university systems? 295
Christine Musselin
Chapter 18
Path dependencies of education systems and the division of labour within 311
organizations: Formalizing the societal effects perspective
Jerald Hage
Chapter 19
Reintroducing public action into societal enalysis 325
Eric Verdier
PART V. GENDER, THE FAMILY AND WORK 339
Introduction 341
Chapter 20
Is it time to gender the societal effect? 343
Jacqueline O’Reilly
Chapter 21
Societal analysis and social change in the family division of labour 357
Marie-Agnes Barrère-Maurisson
Chapter 22
Male and female patterns of labour force participation: A comparison 373
between France and Japan
Hiroatsu Nohara
Chapter 23
Conclusions 389
Marc Maurice and Arndt Sorge
References 401
Authors 431

Preface
We would first and foremost like to thank all the authors who reponded to our Call
for Papers so willingly and competently. A number of translations of papers from
French into English were competently done, as usual, by Andrew Wilson. Secre-
taries in three places were supportive in the administrative work and the compila-
tion of an array of papers and their transformation into book chapters: Ingrid
Burmeister, Eliane Cadeau, José van Gerwen and Margreet Morren. Our past
employers graciously supported this book venture by funding translation and
facilitating travel and editorial meetings: Laboratoire d’économie et de sociologie
du travail (CNRS), Aix-en-Provence (France), Humboldt University Berlin and
the Work and Organization Research Centre (WORC) at Tilburg University (The
Netherlands). We gladly remember the support of Dr. Bianka Ralle at the time that
we conceptualized and planned this book. And finally, we take pleasure in signing
this preface in the town which has come to symbolize the approach which is put
forward and discussed here, as the real or ‘virtual’ home of both of us:
Aix-en-Provence, June 1999
Marc Maurice
Arndt Sorge