The Myth of Japanese Efficiency: The World Car Industry in a Globalizing AgeCombining case studies with accessible but rigorous production models and historical background, this book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The Myth of Japanese Efficiency casts a familiar debate in an |
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... Western capitalism are then made, progressing the case for a fundamental re-assessment of the narratives informing popular accounts of Japan's manufacturing success. Beginning with the fictionalization of history and propagation of ...
... Western capitalism are then made, progressing the case for a fundamental re-assessment of the narratives informing popular accounts of Japan's manufacturing success. Beginning with the fictionalization of history and propagation of ...
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... ( Western ) ' management philosophy ' for more than 50 years , exemplified in the car industry certainly , but also clearly not regarded by the authors as being exclusive to it : indeed , the car industry is selected in this context only ...
... ( Western ) ' management philosophy ' for more than 50 years , exemplified in the car industry certainly , but also clearly not regarded by the authors as being exclusive to it : indeed , the car industry is selected in this context only ...
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... Western capitalism . In addition to drawing out some possible connections between the emergence of a particular narrative about Japanese manufacturing prowess on the one hand , and development in the international political economy on ...
... Western capitalism . In addition to drawing out some possible connections between the emergence of a particular narrative about Japanese manufacturing prowess on the one hand , and development in the international political economy on ...
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... Western rivals - allegedly confined to ' Fordist mass production ' by being leaders in the introduction of mixed - assembly systems is counterfactual : in this sphere of operations , Toyota in global terms was an historic laggard , not ...
... Western rivals - allegedly confined to ' Fordist mass production ' by being leaders in the introduction of mixed - assembly systems is counterfactual : in this sphere of operations , Toyota in global terms was an historic laggard , not ...
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... Western commentators , these changes have largely been assessed since as representing either a continuance of a distinctive production model , or a ' next ' step towards some even higher form . 10 The myth of Japanese efficiency.
... Western commentators , these changes have largely been assessed since as representing either a continuance of a distinctive production model , or a ' next ' step towards some even higher form . 10 The myth of Japanese efficiency.
Contents
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Wide selection a myth encountered | 15 |
Production malapropisms the BMWRover Group controversy | 44 |
Lean production the dog that did not bark | 69 |
Back to the future the reorganization of work at Toyota | 98 |
Rivalrous asymmetries and the Japanese myth | 118 |
Rethinking lean thinking substance and counterfeit | 145 |
The totalizing myth Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction | 161 |
References | 181 |
Index | 193 |
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