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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... example , that the ' lean and flexible ' production now popularly asso- ciated with the Japanese car assembler Toyota is unacceptable if viewed in historical and empirical terms and seriously assessed as a manufacturing model , but that ...
... example , that the ' lean and flexible ' production now popularly asso- ciated with the Japanese car assembler Toyota is unacceptable if viewed in historical and empirical terms and seriously assessed as a manufacturing model , but that ...
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... example of the redesign and reorganization of a production process and the associ- ated network of subcontractors was of course the ' lean production system ' of the Japanese automobile industry . The worldwide exports of cars and ...
... example of the redesign and reorganization of a production process and the associ- ated network of subcontractors was of course the ' lean production system ' of the Japanese automobile industry . The worldwide exports of cars and ...
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... examples , the following propositions : ( a ) It will be argued that the assumption that Toyota and other Japanese car assemblers led a break from ' Fordist ' mass production of standardized models is historically counterfactual , and ...
... examples , the following propositions : ( a ) It will be argued that the assumption that Toyota and other Japanese car assemblers led a break from ' Fordist ' mass production of standardized models is historically counterfactual , and ...
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... example , in works written over the course ( say ) of the past ten years , it is commonplace to see Toyota described as a ' lean and flex- ible ' producer . But the view that Japan's car assemblers , led by Toyota , were proving to be ...
... example , in works written over the course ( say ) of the past ten years , it is commonplace to see Toyota described as a ' lean and flex- ible ' producer . But the view that Japan's car assemblers , led by Toyota , were proving to be ...
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... example , that lean production is a capitalism - friendly answer to global warming , that it represents the future of military procurements and that it is the material basis for socialism . But this book is neither written as , nor is ...
... example , that lean production is a capitalism - friendly answer to global warming , that it represents the future of military procurements and that it is the material basis for socialism . But this book is neither written as , nor is ...
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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