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Title The emergence of routines : entrepreneurship, organization, and business history / Daniel M.G. Raff and Philip Scranton
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
Contents Introduction : Silences, and beginning to fill them / Daniel M.G. Raff and Philip Scranton -- The Book-of-the-Month club as a new enterprise / Daniel M.G. Raff -- Capitalist routine, organizational routines, and the routinization of research and development at Alcoa / Margaret B.W. Graham -- The global in the 1980s and 1990s : liquid modernity, routines, and the case of Motorola's iridium satellite communications venture / Martin Collins -- The dynamic interplay between standards and routines : lessons from industry and government / Andrew L. Russell and Lee Vinsel -- Ford Motor Company's lost chapter : purchasing routine and the advent of mass production / Damon Yarnell -- Heuristics, specifications, and routines in building long-span railway bridges on the western rivers, 1865-80 / John K. Brown -- Rules of the game : dam building and regulation in California, 1910-30 / Donald C. Jackson -- Instruments of change : contract regulations as a source of flexibility in defense procurement, 1942-72 / Glen Asner -- The end of judgment : consumer credit scoring and managerial resistance to the black boxing of creditworthiness / Josh Lauer -- Devising routines for project appraisal at the World Bank, 1945-75 / Michele Alacevich -- Routines of innovation : problem-oriented knowledge communities and the production of clean combustion / Ann Johnson -- Conclusion : Learning from history / Daniel M.G. Raff and Philip Scranton
Summary This work explains how things get organised and how routines emerge in businesses and business life. The chapters explore historical episodes in a wide variety of settings, and encourage a view of firm operations and development that is much more realistic, and much more practically helpful, than the standard economic perspective
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 9, 2016)
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Subject Organization -- History
Management -- History
Business planning -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
Business planning
Management
Organization
Unternehmen
Organisation
Planung
Entrepreneurship
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Raff, Daniel M. G., editor.
Scranton, Philip, editor
LC no. 2016939848
ISBN 9780191091711
0191091715
9780191829857
0191829854