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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... corporations . Nor is it suggested that related issues of orga- nization , industrial relations , or corporate strategy become any the less inter- esting because of positions set out in this book . What this book is concerned with ...
... corporations . Nor is it suggested that related issues of orga- nization , industrial relations , or corporate strategy become any the less inter- esting because of positions set out in this book . What this book is concerned with ...
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... corporations , or trades unions . Viewed solely at this level , therefore , the contribution would be a positive one , if ... corporate promotion . By the same token , it is similarly possible to consider emergent strands that point to ...
... corporations , or trades unions . Viewed solely at this level , therefore , the contribution would be a positive one , if ... corporate promotion . By the same token , it is similarly possible to consider emergent strands that point to ...
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... corporations seeking to access Japan . Third , it addresses some of the ways in which the malaise that afflicted the ... corporate players and state agencies there is considerable political utility in the notion of a shift towards a ...
... corporations seeking to access Japan . Third , it addresses some of the ways in which the malaise that afflicted the ... corporate players and state agencies there is considerable political utility in the notion of a shift towards a ...
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... corporations and their state sponsors are important forces , this might be expected to impinge on the production of ... corporate critics - both within and without academe - who have bought into the view that a radically unpleasant set ...
... corporations and their state sponsors are important forces , this might be expected to impinge on the production of ... corporate critics - both within and without academe - who have bought into the view that a radically unpleasant set ...
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... corporate strategy and accommodation in the global econ- omy . Dr Giuseppe Calabrese , editor of the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management , also provided me with the opportunity to edit a special issue ( Volume ...
... corporate strategy and accommodation in the global econ- omy . Dr Giuseppe Calabrese , editor of the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management , also provided me with the opportunity to edit a special issue ( Volume ...
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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