Post-Soviet management and critical agency theory.
作者： Claudio Morrison
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关键词: Contradiction 、 Context (language use) 、 Manufacturing 、 Principal–agent problem 、 Capital (economics) 、 Restructuring 、 Social transformation 、 Public relations 、 Political economy 、 Political science 、 Control (management)
摘要: This paper intends to explore issues of trust and control, as they emerged from the labour process debate, in context management restructuring Transformation Economies. On basis ethnographic research post-soviet manufacturing industry, will present problems faced by managers owners carrying out restructuring, unveil contradictions that constrain their relationship identify nature social transformation at work process. The contend critical agency theory (Armstrong 1984, 1989, 199) is best suited tool problematising ownership-management this context. turn, with capitalist transition still its early stages, represents an ideal field for operationalising approach. peculiarity soviet economic system rests limited control elites over production process, which, translates into a conflictual mistrustful within management. emergence outside ownership privatised enterprises introduces new dimension contradiction. calls managerial decision-making, keeping sight way which occurs circuit capital.
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