When blues meets blue eyes. Danish Management, Technology and Work between Democracy and Globalisation
Book chapter, 2013

This contribution argues that Scandinavian enterprises, societies and unions (“blue eyes”) have been inspired by, and responded to, new management theories, organisation and technological change developed in the USA (“the blues”), not just over the past twenty years, but continuously since the Second World War. As an overall observation, this mixing and balancing between blues and blue eyes has been successful in the sense that democratic values have prevailed and economic growth has been realised. Current developments are driven by globalised management concepts whose origins, and address, is less clear.

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lean

construction

work

manufacturing

Author

Christian Koch

Chalmers, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Construction Management

Northern Lights. Work Management and Welfare.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Production

Subject Categories

Work Sciences

Computer Science

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