Strategy or Structure? Capital, Labour and Control

Richard Hyman
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Richard Hyman: Industrial Relations Research Unit School of Industrial & Business Studies University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL

Work, Employment & Society, 1987, vol. 1, issue 1, 25-55

Abstract: The literature on and for management makes increasing use of notions of strategy. Is such an approach compatible with analyses of capitalism as structurally determined? The first part of the paper argues that contradictions within capitalist enterprise both create openings for strategic choice, and entail that no strategy will prove successful. The second part examines, in the context of six distinct managerial functions, the extent to which the control of labour can be regarded as a dominant management strategy.

Date: 1987
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