ORGANIZATION AND INDICATORS OF MANAGEMENT - OVERWHELMED OR THE CRISISOF THE CLASSICAL-MODEL OF ORGANIZATION - THE CASE OF NEW PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

The impact has been assessed of the new technology that a dozen firms have been using to manage the complexity resulting from the requiremen ts of flexibility and adaptation. This assessment shows that, although new professional qualities have emerged, the classical organization h as not been deeply affected. An in-depth change cannot occur as long a s programs focus on internal mechanisms and do not raise questions of a more political sort about the wage-earning relationship.