Pettigrew, Andrew
Innovative forms of organising in Europe and Japan - 2000
Recent writing on contemporary organisations is suggestive of extensive moves to create more responsive and flexible firms. Such claims often rest on studies of exceptional organisation or atypical sectors. Drawing on large-scale surveys of organisational innovations in Europe and Japan, this paper finds widespread but not revolutionary change in terms of organisational structures, processes ad boundaries. In comparing innovative forms of organising in 1992 and 1996 , the survey results show some similaries in the direction of change etween European and Japanese organisationa but from different starting points. The pace of innovation is generally much faster in Europe than in Japan. This pattrn of more incremental change in Japan and more radical change in Europe is overlaid by a tendency for firms inboth regions to seek new forms of organsing by simultaneously altering their structures, processes and boundaries. Managing such a complementary change agenda is creating real process challenges for European and Japanese organisations
Innovation
Organisational Change
Stractures
Processes
Boundaries
Europe Compared with Japan
Innovative forms of organising in Europe and Japan - 2000
Recent writing on contemporary organisations is suggestive of extensive moves to create more responsive and flexible firms. Such claims often rest on studies of exceptional organisation or atypical sectors. Drawing on large-scale surveys of organisational innovations in Europe and Japan, this paper finds widespread but not revolutionary change in terms of organisational structures, processes ad boundaries. In comparing innovative forms of organising in 1992 and 1996 , the survey results show some similaries in the direction of change etween European and Japanese organisationa but from different starting points. The pace of innovation is generally much faster in Europe than in Japan. This pattrn of more incremental change in Japan and more radical change in Europe is overlaid by a tendency for firms inboth regions to seek new forms of organsing by simultaneously altering their structures, processes and boundaries. Managing such a complementary change agenda is creating real process challenges for European and Japanese organisations
Innovation
Organisational Change
Stractures
Processes
Boundaries
Europe Compared with Japan
