Author: John Paul MacDuffiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Beyond Mass Production
Author: John Paul MacDuffiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Beyond Mass Production--flexible Production Systems and Manufacturing Performance in Thw World Auto Industry
Author: John Paul MacDuffieBeyond Mass Production--flexible Production Systems and Manufacturing Performance in Thw World Auto Industry
Author: Lean Work
Author: Steve BabsonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814325353
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Examines the controversial Japanese model of lean production and its impact on work and workers in the global auto industry.
The Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business
Author: Giovanni DosiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107028612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Asks whether and to what effect the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural economic changes in business.
After Lean Production
Author: Thomas A. KochanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173167X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Nearly every country that produces cars views the automobile industry as strategically important because of its direct economic significance and because it serves as a bellwether for innovation in employment conditions. In this book, industrial relations experts from eleven countries consider the state of the industry worldwide. They are particularly interested in assessing whether the loudly heralded model of lean production initiated by Toyota has become pervasive.The contributors focus on employment practices: the way work is organized, how workers and managers interact, the way worker representatives respond to lean production strategies, and the nature of the adaptation and innovation process itself.
Coping with Variety
Author: Yannick LungPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429839936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses’ how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors.
Fordism Transformed
Author: Haruhito ShiomiPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198289616
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
. Topical . Written by leading Japanese, America, and European scholars . Based on proceedings of prestigious international conference Japan is now the world's largest producer of cars but it only began to catch up with its competitors after World War II by studying and modifying the Ford system of mass production implemented first in the USA in the early part of the century. Other countries have also developed the system in their own ways with varying degrees of success. The papers in this volume will examine and compare the experiences of different countries in modifying the Ford system, and the impact of the quality control movement' and lean production in Japan."
Technology, Organizations and Innovation: Critical empirical studies
Author: Ian McLoughlinPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415203975
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
An authoritative collection of leading critical and contemporary writings published in the field of technology and organizations. The set spans a 50-year time period taking the reader from the first and most influential papers from the early 1950s through to some recent publications which address contemporary and emerging debates in the field at the dawn of the 21st century. Each of the 4 volumes has a particular focus upon this area of research and scholarship: the early debates; theories, paradigms and concepts; critical empirical studies; and emerging themes and future debates. The editors provide an introduction to, and overview of, the themes, debates, perspectives, theories and paradigms which characterize this area of organization studies, and set out a "route map" to help guide the reader through the four volumes.
Transforming Japanese Workplaces
Author: T. SakikawaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137268867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Explores the transformations that have taken place in Japanese workplaces since the dawn of the new millennium in terms of management practices, particularly in the areas of Human Resource Management and organizational culture. The author empirically assesses the effectiveness of the new approaches introduced by Japanese companies.