This book brings together original studies of the development of Japanese and - crucially - non-Japanese management in the automotive industry from around the world, including a total of nine country studies in the key production and consumption theatres North and South America, Europe and Japan. It offers new perspectives for all those concerned with the impact of new management arrangements on both employees and management alike.
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The following discussion rests on the contention that the Japanization school in the UK can be understood as a specific moment in the rise of theories of globalization more generally (Stewart and Garrahan, 1997). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lean production school, transplant sector, affiliate sector, modular production system, skilled trades workers, cash generative, lean plants, new manufacturing strategies, vehicle assemblers, indirect workers, lean companies, kaizen activities, press shop, militant trade unionism, new production system, workplace characteristics, manufacturing affiliates, work reorganization, shopfloor workers, transfer presses, assembly shop, job sheet, total productive maintenance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flat Rock, United States, Big Three, New York, North America, Plan Mercure, Highland Park, Steve Babson, Oxford University Press, Andersen Consulting, Automotive Industries, Ford Hermosillo, Industrial Bank of Japan, Karel Williams, University of California, Volvo Car Corporation, Automotive News, East German, Financial Times, Global Japanisation, Grade Four, Lean Work, Methods Flower, Wayne State University, Auto Company New!
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The following discussion rests on the contention that the Japanization school in the UK can be understood as a specific moment in the rise of theories of globalization more generally (Stewart and Garrahan, 1997). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lean production school, transplant sector, affiliate sector, modular production system, skilled trades workers, cash generative, lean plants, new manufacturing strategies, vehicle assemblers, indirect workers, lean companies, kaizen activities, press shop, militant trade unionism, new production system, workplace characteristics, manufacturing affiliates, work reorganization, shopfloor workers, transfer presses, assembly shop, job sheet, total productive maintenance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Flat Rock, United States, Big Three, New York, North America, Plan Mercure, Highland Park, Steve Babson, Oxford University Press, Andersen Consulting, Automotive Industries, Ford Hermosillo, Industrial Bank of Japan, Karel Williams, University of California, Volvo Car Corporation, Automotive News, East German, Financial Times, Global Japanisation, Grade Four, Lean Work, Methods Flower, Wayne State University, Auto Company New!
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- The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production by James P. Womack on 5 pages
- Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant by Joseph J. Fucini on page 18, and page 80
- Cars: Analysis, History, Cases. by Colin Haslam on page 43, and page 80
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci on page 19
- Business Management by National Learning Corporation on page 181
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- East Asian Direct Investment in Britain (Studies in Asia Pacific Business,) by Philip Garrahan in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Myths at Work by Harriet Bradley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Korean Businesses: Internal and External Industrialization (Studies in Asia Pacific Business,) by Johngseok Bae in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Korean Businesses: Internal and External Industrialization (Studies in Asia Pacific Business) by Johngseok Bae in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Managed in Hong Kong: Adaptive Systems, Entrepreneurship and Human Resources (Studies in Asia Pacific Business) by Robert Fitzgerald in Front Matter
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