Pettigrew, Andrew <br/><br/>
Innovative forms of organising in Europe and Japan 

 -  2000 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Innovation<br/>Organisational Change<br/>Stractures<br/>Processes<br/>Boundaries<br/>Europe Compared with Japan