Essays on Fordism

The growth of franchising in America and Europe since the 1970s[1-4] has led to this business form assuming increasing impor-tance in a number of academic debates, including the fields of law, marketing, organi-zation theory, services growth, etc. One of the most interesting issues here is the potential of franchising to provide self-employment opportunities. After all,…

With the economy being in a double dip recession (and it the deepest and longest recession for generations) there is a major lack of demand for goods and services in the economy. Vice Chancellor, George Osbourne delivered the Autumn Statement 2012 yesterday (Wednesday the 5th December) and stated to expect slower growth [1]. Taking these…

Tourism Industry is one of the fastest turning industries in the universe. “ Tourism has long been a cardinal constituent of the economic, societal and cultural displacement that has left its imprint on the universe system of metropoliss in the past two decennaries ” ( Dumond ; 2005 cited in Beben ; 2006 ; 1…

Critical Discussion of Classical Management Theory Applied to Modern Organizations Taylorism Two of the most normally studied and applied direction theories are those of Taylorist and Fordist direction theories. Taylorism or more normally known as Scientific Management Theory is the name of the methodological analysis to direction, industrial and organisational psychological science, which was introduced…