Productivity, Slack, and Time Theft in the Soviet Economy: Evidence from the Soviet Interview Project
Abstract : This study uses eyewitness accounts of enterprise operations as an unconventional source of information on Soviet productivity and worker behavior, Soviet Union, Worker productivity.
Abstract To co-ordinate the activities of all participants in their business system, Benetton and Toyota explicitly separated entrepreneurial from professional activities. Managing flows of information, cash and goods became the distinctive competence of sinior entrepreneurs. This created two independently co-ordinated and distinct organizations: The social and the professional organization. The author discusses ways of creating these organizations.