Managing In-Company Standardisation while Avoiding Resistance: A Philosophical-Empirical Approach

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Author(s): Ries Haverkamp (Interface European Manufacturing, The Netherlands)and Henk J. de Vries (RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 30
Source title: Effective Standardization Management in Corporate Settings
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9737-9.ch009

Keywords: Business Information Systems / Business Science Reference / Computer Science & IT / IT Policy & Standardization

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Standards may be an advantage for a company but employees often resist them because they feel they are forced to behave in a certain way. This chapter uses a philosophical approach to study why staff tend to resist company standardisation initiatives. Foucault and Habermas provide insights into the reasons for this resistance but do not solve the tension between freedom and control. Dooyeweerd's philosophy seems to be more promising. This chapter uses a company standardisation project of an automotive supplier to examine three philosophical approaches to understand resistance to standards and to investigate how this resistance can be avoided by managing in-company standardisation in a more holistic way.

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