Just-in-Time, `Regimes' and Reductionism
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociology
- Vol. 28 (1), 21-30
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038594028001003
Abstract
This article gives critical consideration of a number of points about just-in-time (JIT) production organisation raised by Sewell and Wilkinson in their recent paper in Sociology (May 1992). Their analysis of JIT as a system, and of its `embedding' in organisations, is shown to be reductionist and the roots of certain aspects of this weakness are related to deficiencies in fashionable neo-Foucauldian notions of production `régimes'. In its final section the article suggests that the analytical basis of a better approach to JIT already exists in socio-technical theory.Keywords
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