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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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. in this and other industries ... car assemblers appear here in a double role , playing a part as both agents ... line stop- pages , and worker discontent . Read at this level , the ...
The World Car Industry in a Globalizing Age Dan Coffey. in this and other industries ... car assemblers appear here in a double role , playing a part as both agents ... line stop- pages , and worker discontent . Read at this level , the ...
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... lines , in a single inte- grated assembly process . The chapter considers ... cars . And in this part of its argument the chapter concludes that , when simultaneous ... car industry , with its epicentre in Japan , relies on a series of ...
... lines , in a single inte- grated assembly process . The chapter considers ... cars . And in this part of its argument the chapter concludes that , when simultaneous ... car industry , with its epicentre in Japan , relies on a series of ...
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... car industry as well as to compilers of case studies in business strategy ... car assembly plants throughout the world car industry ; these studies are perhaps best ... lines . These commenced in the late 1980s , as a response to growing ...
... car industry as well as to compilers of case studies in business strategy ... car assembly plants throughout the world car industry ; these studies are perhaps best ... lines . These commenced in the late 1980s , as a response to growing ...
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... line - stoppage rates under different forms of work organization . This provides an entirely consistent perspective ... car industry . If the first set of chapters explore some substantive problems vis - a - vis the production methods and ...
... line - stoppage rates under different forms of work organization . This provides an entirely consistent perspective ... car industry . If the first set of chapters explore some substantive problems vis - a - vis the production methods and ...
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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