1 - Voir Laurent Thévenot, "L'action en plan", Sociologie du travail, mai 1995.
2 - William B. Cornell, Organization and Management in Industry and Business, New York, The Ronald Press, 3e éd. 1947 (1è éd. 1928), p. 670.
3 - Joseph Staline, Textes, Paris, Ed. sociales, 1983, t. 2, p. 23.
4 - Dexter S. Kimball, Principles of Industrial Organization, New York, McGraw-Hill, 4e éd. 1933 (1è éd. 1913), 460 pp., p. 204-5.
5 - Horace L. Arnold et Fay L. Faurote, Ford Methods and the Ford Shops, New York, The Engineering Magazine, 1919 (cop. 1915), 440 pp.
6 - "This is official, but, as will be seen from the "shortage chaser" story, the factory practice does not follow the production-head schedule", p. 63.
7 - Le shortage chaser "boards the department drifting within sound of breakers, seizes the helm of component production, and pilots the department into smooth water again - sometimes but barely escaping the surf-line, it is true, but always managing to escape disaster", p. 64.
8 - David Shearer, "Factories within Factories : Changes in the Structure of Work and Management in Soviet Machine-Building Factories, 1926-34", Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization, William G. Rosenberg et Lewis H. Siegelbaum (eds.), Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1993, p. 197 en particulier.
9 - Joseph Berliner, Factory and Manager in the USSR, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1957, chap. XII.
10 - Cornell, op. cit., pp. 671-2.
11 - Ernest Mattern, Création, organisation et direction des usines, Paris, Dunod, 1926 (1e éd. 1925), p. 209-210.
12 - Ernest Mattern, Principes à observer pour la direction d'une société, Sochaux, 1941, 115 pp. dactyl. (inédit) d'où sont extraites toutes les informations suivantes sur Citroën.