TY  - CHAP
AB  - Joan undertook the ground-breaking project originally reported in the 1958 pamphlet, Management and Technology, not at one of Britain's great universities, but at the unfashionable address of the South East Essex Technical College (then in the county of Essex but now part of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham). The Human Relations Research Unit had been set up at the college, which is now part of the University of East London, in 1953 with support from a number of agencies including funding ultimately derived from the Marshall Plan. Its express purpose was to enhance the performance of industry and commerce through the application of social science. Those readers familiar with the area will know that, at the time, it was economically and culturally dominated by the Ford assembly plant in nearby Dagenham, but it was also home to a diverse range of small- and medium-sized industrial workshops that were typical of the pre-war Greater London economy (Woodward, 1965; Massey & Meegan, 1982). It was into this diverse industrial milieu that Joan and her research team ventured (Fig. 1), completing their main study in 1958.
VL  - 29
SN  - 978-1-84950-984-8, 978-1-84950-985-5/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2010)0000029005
AU  - Sewell Graham
AU  - Phillips Nelson
ED  - Nelson Phillips
ED  - Graham Sewell
ED  - Dorothy Griffiths
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Introduction: Joan Woodward and the study of organizations
T2  - Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 3
EP  - 20
Y2  - 2024/05/09
ER  -