Embedding Organizations: Societal Analysis of Actors, Organizations and Socio-economic Context (Advances in Organization Studies) PDF
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EMBEDDING ORGANIZATIONS Advances in Organization Studies Advances in Organization Studies includes cutting-edge work in comparative management and intercultural comparison, studies of organizational culture, communication, and aes- thetics, as well as in the area of interorganizational collaboration — strategic alliances, joint ventures, networks and collaborations of all kinds, where comparative, intercultural, and communicative issues have an especial salience. Purely theoretical as well as empirically based studies are included. General Editors Stewart Clegg School of Management University of Technology Sydney Quay Street, Haymarket P.O.Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007 Australia [email protected] Alfred Kieser University of Mannheim D 68 131 Mannheim Germany [email protected] 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 JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American 8 National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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. HM548.E45 2000 306.3--dc21 99-087043 ISBN 90 272 3301 2 (Eur.) / 1 55619 747 0 (US) (Pb: alk. paper) CIP © 2000 – John Benjamins Publishing Company No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O.Box 75577 · 1070 AN Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O.Box 27519 · Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 · USA 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
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