I'm curious if the European context of corporate "command and control" differs from the North American one. (edit: The authors are European. edit 2: I've heard

I'm curious if the European context of corporate "command and control" differs from the North American one. (edit: The authors are European. edit 2: I've heard anecdotes that European labor laws make management more "strict" with workers.) I also wonder if the profession and industry make a huge difference. In my limited experience in North America as a software developer, there has been little "command and control", and far more "chaos", i.e. the businesses didn't seem to have any kind of control over their software development, and would tolerate a surprisingly low amount of predictability. This was almost always because non-technical types were in charge. (edit: Non-technical types often view software management as intractable, and tend to utilize vague approaches like "we'll ship something on this date".)