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Surviving Jit: Control And Resistance In A Japanese Transplant

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This research considers the process of management control and workers’ actions in a Japanese‐owned consumer electronics plant sited in England. the data are drawn from a period of participant observation which enabled the author to explore, in detail, the style and extent of management control and worker behaviour, and the nature of workplace relations at the plant. the author found that the incorporation of just‐in‐time JIT) and total quality management (TQM) into clearly defined management objectives had allowed a more complete combination of the control of labour with management's economic goals than that apparent under piece rate systems of control. Worker resistance and ‘misbehaviour’ persist, but in ways which are increasingly fragmentary and marginal.

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  • Rick Delbridge, 1995. "Surviving Jit: Control And Resistance In A Japanese Transplant," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(6), pages 803-817, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:32:y:1995:i:6:p:803-817
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1995.tb00153.x
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    1. Anand Chand, 2018. "Expanding Gouldner’s Theory of Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy: Looking Back and Moving Forward," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 137(1), pages 317-334, May.
    2. John Storey & Alan Harrison, 1999. "Coping with World Class Manufacturing," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 13(4), pages 643-664, December.
    3. Robin Burrow & Rebecca Scott & David Courpasson, 2022. "Where ‘The Rules Don’t Apply’: Organizational Isolation and Misbehaviour in Elite Kitchens," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(5), pages 1103-1131, July.
    4. Rafael Alcadipani & John Hassard & Gazi Islam, 2018. "“ I Shot the Sheriff ”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) halshs-01959081, HAL.
    5. Darren McCabe & Sylwia Ciuk & Margaret Gilbert, 2022. "‘This Is the End’? An Ethnographic Study of Management Control and a New Management Initiative," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 36(3), pages 503-521, June.
    6. Rick Delbridge, 2014. "Promising Futures: CMS, Post-Disciplinarity, and the New Public Social Science," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(1), pages 95-117, January.
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    8. Rafael Alcadipani & John Hassard & Gazi Islam, 2018. "“ I Shot the Sheriff ”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance," Post-Print halshs-01959081, HAL.

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