Industrial Change in Europe
The Pursuit of Flexible Specialisation in Britain and West Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8042480 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Lane (0000-0003-2450-592X, SMPS Division University of Aston Management Centre Gosta Green BIRMINGHAM B4 7ET), Christel Lane (Aston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-168 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017088002002002 |
| OpenAlex | W2166210720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper examines industrial change during the 1980s in two advanced capitalist societies - the Federal Republic of Germany and Britain - and assesses how far the evidence lends support to the Piore and Sabel thesis that a new model of industrial organisation - referred to as `flexible specialisation' - is emerging in advanced societies. The paper concludes that, although some movement towards flexible specialisation is discernible in both societies, the emergent pattern in each case is very different and more complex than suggested by Piore and Sabel. The tendency towards flexible specialisation is found to be more pronounced and more consistent in Germany than in Britain, and the study tries to clarify what aspects of industrial organisation facilitate or impede the adoption of a new manufacturing policy. Lastly, the paper relates the changes in industrial organisation, observed in the two societies, to the debate on the labour process and discusses the different implications in each case for managerial control, costs and benefits to workers, and future economic development
Business · Control (management · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Industrial society · Management · Political economy · Political science · Process (computing · Industrial relations · Regional Development and Policy · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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New Production Concepts? The West German Debates on Restructuring
Reinterpreting Corporatism and Explaining Unemployment
Varieties of Capitalism and the Limits of Entrepreneurship Policy
Worker Displacement and Corporate Restructuring
Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development
Rethinking Post-Fordism
Rethinking Post-Fordism
A Simulacrum of Workplace Community
Power, Technology and Flexibility in Organizations
The Transformation of Work Revisited
Downsizing and Deknowledging the Firm
New Production Arrangements
Flexible 'Parts' and Rigid 'Fulls
Work and Flexible Automation in Britain
The Flexibility Fetish A Review Essay on Flexible Specialisation
From `Welfare Capitalism' to `Market Capitalism'; A Comparative Review of Trends towards Employment Flexibility in the Labour Markets of Three Major European Societies
Core and Periphery in Employers' Workforce Strategies
The Economic System and the Work Situation
New technology, new careers
The ‘Third Wave’
Flexible Specialisation and the Competitive Failure of Uk Manufacturing
The greening of European industry
Flexible Specialization, Supply-Side Institutionalism, and the Nature of Work Systems
Crise do fordismo ou crise da social-democracia
Breaking in' and 'breaking out
Managerial Contradictions and Satisficing in the Lean Workplace
Developing Neo-Fordism
The Dual Transformation of Social Protection and Human Capital
New Utopias for old
The reality of workplace flexibility
The British production regime
Technical Innovation and Work Reorganisation in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
Postfordism as a dysfunctional accumulation regime
Gender Segregation in Societal Context
The second industrial divide
The Degradation of work?
The development of the labour process in capitalist societies
The Second Industrial Divide
The Degradation of Work? Skill, Deskilling, and the Labour Process
UK occupation and employment trends to 1990
Microelectronics in industry. an international comparison
Microprocessors, manpower and society
Industry and Labour
The Automobile Industry and Its Workers
The Uncertainties of Management in the Management of Uncertainty
Industry and Labour
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,95 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2024 (37) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |