2000/03/01 by Jos Benders, Mark Van Bijsterveld
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Corporate Management and Leadership #Emotional Labor in Professions #Management and Organizational Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/1468-005x.00064
openalex publication_date 2000/03/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The ‘fashionable’ concept of lean production has been discussed more intensively in Germany than elsewhere in Europe but has resulted not only in rationalisation measures such as downsizing and delayering but also in implementing ‘Gruppenarbeit’. Through interpretation processes at different levels, the outcomes of action undertaken in the name of a concept can become loose‐coupled to its original meanings. Fashion’s ‘interpretive viability’ allows for this.