Operating Rules in Organizations

When economists claim that rules are coordinating devices, they do not explain how those rules operate in the reality of organizational life. Rules do not indicate behaviour, since their most important characteristic is their remoteness from the solution. Thus, rules are merely frameworks for action requiring constant interpretation. This book is grounded in Wittgenstein's understanding of rules as having significance only in the course of their application. It focuses on two kinds of rules - macroeconomic and microeconomic - through detailed case studies of wage indexation and labour productivity.

Autorentext
Bénédicte Reynaud is Research Director at France's National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), and works at CEPREMAP, (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris).

Inhalt
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Acronyms General Introduction Trust and Wage Relationship Wage Disindexation in France and the Incompleteness of the Employment Contract The Introduction of a Wage Bonus in as Workshop in the Paris Metro Following the Rules: Definition and Practical Implications How Rules Operate in Practice: The Team Productivity Bonus, Productivity and Work Quality at AME, 1992-2000 Rules, Routines and Habitus Endnotes References Index