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| Author: | Wilkinson, B. |
| Title: | The New International Division of Labour in Asian Electronics: Work Organization and Human Resources in Japan and Malaysia |
| Journal: | Journal of Management Studies
2001 : JUL, VOL. 38:5, p. 675-696 |
| Index terms: | LABOUR ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY MALAYSIA WORK ORGANIZATION HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JAPAN |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article documents and analyses the organization of work and human resources management in ten manufacturing plants in Malaysia and three plants in Japan. Each of the plants carries out specific tasks within an emergent international division of labor surrounding two Japanese multinational producers of consumer electronics goods. Plant roles reflect their positions in commodity chains driven by the multinationals, varying in relation to product-to-product and component-to-component divisions of labor, and in relation to the location of product and process innovations. How work is organized and how workers are managed are explained by the location of each plant within this division of labor, and by the characteristics and situation of labor, the one commodity which talks back, within the local environment. |
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