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Author: Richard Whitley (Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.585kg
ISBN: 9780198293965
ISBN 10: 0198293968
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 01 April 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
for those interested in the workings of the interconnected world and notions of globalisation, this book provides a valuable perspective on the parallel emergence of diverse forms of economic organisation. Times Higher Education Supplement, 16/11/01 The outstanding feature of Richard Whitley's book is its attempt to take a systemic view of the complex process through which distinctive patterns of economic organisation emerge. Times Higher Education Supplement, 16/11/01 Richard Whitley's book makes a important contribution to (this) debate ... This new book ... not only brings together the ideas expounded in earlier publications in a new way but also significantly expands and deepens the theoretical framework. Christel Lane; Work, Employment and Society, Vol 14, No 4, 2000 The book provides a very useful intellectual toolkit for comparative analysis of varieties of capitalism and their interaction with an as yet underdeveloped global capitalist system. It not only reliably documents the diversity of institutional and organisational forms found in contemporary capitalist societies but also enriches our understanding of both continuity and change in such arrangements in a wide range of advanced and newly industrialising countries across the globe. Christel Lane; Work, Employment and Society, Vol 14, No4, 2000 postgraduate students and academics will not only read it with interest but frequently return to it for theoretical guidance and empirical reference Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/3, 2000 the reader is helped by frequent presentation of key features of arguments in useful tables, as well as by the constant illustration of theoretical points with empirical examples. Moreover, the effort invested in following the arguments is well rewarded. The book provides a very useful intellectual toolkit for comparative analysis of varieties of capitalism and their interaction with an as yet underdeveloped global capitalist system. It not only reliably documents the diversity of institutional and organisational forms found in contemporary capitalist societies but also enriches our understanding of both continuity and change in such arrangements in a wide range of advanced and new industrialising countries across the globe. Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/3, 2000 Whitley's conclusions ... although often counter-intuitive, are by and large very convincing as they are based on careful logical argument, backed up by a wealth of empirical detail. Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000 Richard Whitley's book makes an important contribution to [this] debate. Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000
Richard Whitley's book makes an important contribution to [this] debate. * Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000 * * Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000 * Whitley's conclusions ... although often counter-intuitive, are by and large very convincing as they are based on careful logical argument, backed up by a wealth of empirical detail. * Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000 * the reader is helped by frequent presentation of key features of arguments in useful tables, as well as by the constant illustration of theoretical points with empirical examples. Moreover, the effort invested in following the arguments is well rewarded. The book provides a very useful intellectual toolkit for comparative analysis of varieties of capitalism and their interaction with an as yet underdeveloped global capitalist system. It not only reliably documents the diversity of institutional and organisational forms found in contemporary capitalist societies but also enriches our understanding of both continuity and change in such arrangements in a wide range of advanced and new industrialising countries across the globe. * Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/3, 2000 * postgraduate students and academics will not only read it with interest but frequently return to it for theoretical guidance and empirical reference * Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/3, 2000 * The book provides a very useful intellectual toolkit for comparative analysis of varieties of capitalism and their interaction with an as yet underdeveloped global capitalist system. It not only reliably documents the diversity of institutional and organisational forms found in contemporary capitalist societies but also enriches our understanding of both continuity and change in such arrangements in a wide range of advanced and newly industrialising countries across the globe. * Christel Lane; Work, Employment and Society, Vol 14, No4, 2000 * Richard Whitley's book makes a important contribution to (this) debate ... This new book ... not only brings together the ideas expounded in earlier publications in a new way but also significantly expands and deepens the theoretical framework. * Christel Lane; Work, Employment and Society, Vol 14, No 4, 2000 * The outstanding feature of Richard Whitley's book is its attempt to take a systemic view of the complex process through which distinctive patterns of economic organisation emerge. * Times Higher Education Supplement, 16/11/01 * for those interested in the workings of the interconnected world and notions of globalisation, this book provides a valuable perspective on the parallel emergence of diverse forms of economic organisation. * Times Higher Education Supplement, 16/11/01 *
`for those interested in the workings of the interconnected world and notions of globalisation, this book provides a valuable perspective on the parallel emergence of diverse forms of economic organisation.' Times Higher Education Supplement, 16/11/01 `The outstanding feature of Richard Whitley's book is its attempt to take a systemic view of the complex process through which distinctive patterns of economic organisation emerge.' Times Higher Education Supplement, 16/11/01 `Richard Whitley's book makes a important contribution to (this) debate ... This new book ... not only brings together the ideas expounded in earlier publications in a new way but also significantly expands and deepens the theoretical framework.' Christel Lane; Work, Employment and Society, Vol 14, No 4, 2000 `The book provides a very useful intellectual toolkit for comparative analysis of varieties of capitalism and their interaction with an as yet underdeveloped global capitalist system. It not only reliably documents the diversity of institutional and organisational forms found in contemporary capitalist societies but also enriches our understanding of both continuity and change in such arrangements in a wide range of advanced and newly industrialising countries across the globe.' Christel Lane; Work, Employment and Society, Vol 14, No4, 2000 `postgraduate students and academics will not only read it with interest but frequently return to it for theoretical guidance and empirical reference' Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/3, 2000 `the reader is helped by frequent presentation of key features of arguments in useful tables, as well as by the constant illustration of theoretical points with empirical examples. Moreover, the effort invested in following the arguments is well rewarded. The book provides a very useful intellectual toolkit for comparative analysis of varieties of capitalism and their interaction with an as yet underdeveloped global capitalist system. It not only reliably documents the diversity of institutional and organisational forms found in contemporary capitalist societies but also enriches our understanding of both continuity and change in such arrangements in a wide range of advanced and new industrialising countries across the globe.' Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/3, 2000 `Whitley's conclusions ... although often counter-intuitive, are by and large very convincing as they are based on careful logical argument, backed up by a wealth of empirical detail.' Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000 `... not only brings together the ideas expounded in earlier publications in a new way but also significantly expands and deepens the theoretical framework.' Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000 `Richard Whitley's book makes an important contribution to [this] debate.' Christel Lane, Work, Employment & Society, Vol 14/4, 2000
Author Information
Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He has also held visiting academic appointments at the International University of Japan (1993), University of Hong Kong (1988), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1987), University of Amsterdam (1982), St Anthony's College, Oxford (1981), and the Inter-University Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands (1977, 1979).
