technostructure

"And you will be invaluable integrating my knowledge inconspicuously with the current technostructure here."

To do this one needs great political sensitivity to manage the technostructure and oppose technocracy.

While it must maintain acceptable relations with their shareholders, hegemonic growth is more beneficial to the technostructure.

This, quite evidently, greatly differed from the objectives of the technostructure which caused massive restructuring in the 1990s.

While the goals of an affluent society and complicit government serve the irrational technostructure, public space is simultaneously impoverished.

In her view, "this option which is favoured by the European technostructure, presents all the features of a totalitarian utopia".

We are willing to put all our technostructure at the disposal of the EFSF.

The lack of control of the technostructure resulted in managerial abuse notably on its salaries during the economic crisis of the 1970s.

What will the situation be like after enlargement, when the markets will react to any event affecting any one of the thirty odd countries which make up the European technostructure?

In The New Industrial State Galbraith argued that economic decisions are planned by a private-bureaucracy, a technostructure of experts who manipulate marketing and public relations channels.

Since the technostructure is composed of an hierarchical system of influential employees inside the enterprise, its primary goal is not to maximize their profits but rather survival, continuous growth and maximal size.

In his view, therefore, the 'crisis' facing capitalism is the result of an independent technology driving it in a direction which runs counter to the declared ideology of the technostructure who control it.

We lived, critics and supporters agreed, in what John Kenneth Galbraith called "the technostructure," an oligopolistic industrial state where the future was carefully planned in advance, through either government or private bureaucracy.

In The New Industrial State (1967), Galbraith argued that the dominant American corporations had created a technostructure that closely controlled both consumer demand and market growth through advertising and marketing.

The power struggle between the technostructure and the shareholders was first evoked by Thorstein Veblen in "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899), questioning who, among the managers and the shareholders, should control the enterprise.

You will not be surprised when I tell you they were spoken by Jean Monnet, at a time when the construction of Europe was a thing of the future, and had not yet been buried under the deadweight of technostructure.

Technostructure is a term coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The New Industrial State (1967) to describe the group of technicians within an enterprise (or an administrative body) with considerable influence and control on its economy.

He says that a key aim of the technostructure is to maintain its control over the company, and so it prefers financing via retained profits to bank borrowing; thus returns to shareholders are lowered to ensure the company does not risk its self-reliance.

The internal structure of a corporation had been reorganized in what he calls a "technostructure", where specialized groups and committees are the primary decision-makers, and specialized managers, directors and financial advisers with formal bureaucratic procedures have replaced the individual entrepreneur's role.

To this reference, I would prefer another: that of a "revolution from above", which the leaders of dominant nations and the Brussels and Frankfurt technostructure are attempting under the whip of necessity - ie the predicted collapse of the single currency.

Standardization of outputs, which achieves coordination by specifying the results of different work (again usually developed in the technostructure, as in a financial plan that specifies subunit performance targets or specifications that outline the dimensions of a product to be produced)

It is therefore necessary for European countries to adopt a similar approach to the satellite sector. The success of the Ariane and Airbus projects, which were both developed outside the scope of European institutions, proves that it is perfectly possible to build a high-technology Europe without a heavy administrative technostructure.

Standardization of work processes, which achieves coordination by specifying the work processes of people carrying out interrelated tasks (those standards usually being developed in the technostructure to be carried out in the operating core, as in the case of the work instructions that come out of time-and-motion studies)

A third related work was Economics and the Public Purpose (1973), in which he expanded on these themes by discussing, among other issues, the subservient role of women in the unrewarded management of ever-greater consumption, and the role of the technostructure in the large firm in influencing perceptions of sound economic policy aims.