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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... car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth, but one which sheds light on cultural responses to the attendant stresses of globalization. To illustrate this ...
... car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth, but one which sheds light on cultural responses to the attendant stresses of globalization. To illustrate this ...
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The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. 1. Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency The basic method of producing automobiles changed very little between 1913 , when Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line , and ...
The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. 1. Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency The basic method of producing automobiles changed very little between 1913 , when Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line , and ...
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The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. because its terms are more obviously myth . The change in question pertains to the alleged appearance in Japan - and evident from the early 1970s - of a new way of organizing the ...
The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. because its terms are more obviously myth . The change in question pertains to the alleged appearance in Japan - and evident from the early 1970s - of a new way of organizing the ...
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The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. coincided ( serendipitously ) with a pronounced change in ... car sector has a more general relevance : that what has been witnessed ' in the making and selling of cars is of ...
The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. coincided ( serendipitously ) with a pronounced change in ... car sector has a more general relevance : that what has been witnessed ' in the making and selling of cars is of ...
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The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. in this and other industries , but also with ' social change ... industry ( cars ) are in this way duly held to be reflective of a more fundamental transformation in industrial ...
The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. in this and other industries , but also with ' social change ... industry ( cars ) are in this way duly held to be reflective of a more fundamental transformation in industrial ...
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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