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- Title
THE LIMITS OF AUTONOMY: DEVOLUTION, LINE MANAGERS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN PRIVATIZED COMPANIES.
- Authors
Colling, Trevor; Ferner, Anthony
- Abstract
The article discusses some of the demerits of autonomy in business enterprises and further describes the delegations and industrial relations in private companies. According to the authors, managerial decentralization has become common in organizations in the early 1990s. Because of competition in national and international market, decentralization usually takes the form of distributing decision making power and accountability to lower organizational levels, which are also known as the strategic business units. They believe that because of structural and micropolitical problems associated with decentralization, many companies in Great Britain have started to move away from this business model.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; POLITICAL autonomy; BRITISH corporations; PERSONNEL management; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; DECENTRALIZATION in management; PRIVATIZATION; INDUSTRIAL relations; PRIVATE companies; DECISION making
- Publication
Journal of Management Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 1992, Vol 29, Issue 2, p209
- ISSN
0022-2380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00661.x