Two MacArthur Prize Fellows argue that to get out of its current economic crisis industry should abandon its attachment to standardized mass production for a system of flexible specialization.
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Michael J. Piore is Mitsui Professor of Contemporary Technology at M.I.T. Charles F. Sabel is Ford International Associate Professor of Social Science at M.I.T. Michael J. Piore is Mitsui Professor of Contemporary Technology at M.I.T. Charles F. Sabel is Ford International Associate Professor of Social Science at M.I.T.
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Very detailed analysis of how we got our current industrial/corporate landscape with suggestions for an alternative network of flexible, smaller, specialized firms...if I've understood the authors correctly.
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THE TIMES are troubled indeed when the good news is almost indistinguishable from the bad. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
macroregulatory institutions, microeconomic regulation, craft paradigm, économie concertée, yeoman democracy, seniority districts, traditional industrial districts, macroeconomic regulation, flexible specialists, industrial dualism, flexible specialization, région industrielle, permanent innovation, mass producers, craft principles, grievance machinery, des rubans, market stabilization, craft sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, West Germany, New York, Great Britain, General Motors, New Deal, International Monetary Fund, Bretton Woods, Great Depression, Christian Democrats, General Electric, Henry Ford, Social Democrats, Western Europe, Department of Commerce, Social Democratic, Supreme Court, Third Italy, Wagner Act, Latin America, New England, Adam Smith, American Federation of Labor, European Economic Community, Harvard Business School New!
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THE TIMES are troubled indeed when the good news is almost indistinguishable from the bad. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
macroregulatory institutions, microeconomic regulation, craft paradigm, économie concertée, yeoman democracy, seniority districts, traditional industrial districts, macroeconomic regulation, flexible specialists, industrial dualism, flexible specialization, région industrielle, permanent innovation, mass producers, craft principles, grievance machinery, des rubans, market stabilization, craft sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, West Germany, New York, Great Britain, General Motors, New Deal, International Monetary Fund, Bretton Woods, Great Depression, Christian Democrats, General Electric, Henry Ford, Social Democrats, Western Europe, Department of Commerce, Social Democratic, Supreme Court, Third Italy, Wagner Act, Latin America, New England, Adam Smith, American Federation of Labor, European Economic Community, Harvard Business School New!
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