High-Tech Corporatism: Management–Employee Relations in U.S. Electronics Firms, 1920s–1960s
研究了1920至1960年代波士顿和硅谷电子企业中的社团主义管理实践,揭示其如何应对高技能劳动力问题,并影响后来美国软件、计算机、互联网和生物技术行业。
In this article I examine corporative management practices in electronics firms in Boston and in Silicon Valley from the 1920s to the 1960s. Managers in several key firms developed these practices in response to political and professional ideologies and as a way to address the problems of hiring, using, and retaining a highly skilled work force. They did this independently of the welfare capitalism plans of corporations such as Eastman Kodak and before the guru theorists and work empowerment programs of the 1960s. The corporatist methods first developed in Boston and further refined in Silicon Valley later diffused to most U.S. firms in the software, computer, Internet, and biotechnology industries.