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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... historical, background, this provocative book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a ...
... historical, background, this provocative book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a ...
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... historical and empirical terms and seriously assessed as a manufacturing model , but that its success as a story is one that may shed light on cultural responses to global stresses . This book sets out to establish its propositions by ...
... historical and empirical terms and seriously assessed as a manufacturing model , but that its success as a story is one that may shed light on cultural responses to global stresses . This book sets out to establish its propositions by ...
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... historical progress of a major industry , one moreover that is the subject of close scrutiny by large bodies of professional industry observers , is explicable in terms of the misleading effects of cleverly written but misdirecting ...
... historical progress of a major industry , one moreover that is the subject of close scrutiny by large bodies of professional industry observers , is explicable in terms of the misleading effects of cleverly written but misdirecting ...
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... historic laggard , not a leader . Indeed , the assertion that the mid - 1970s saw a decisive break in manufacturing practices in the car industry , with its epicentre in Japan , relies on a series of counterfactuals . Chapter 2 makes ...
... historic laggard , not a leader . Indeed , the assertion that the mid - 1970s saw a decisive break in manufacturing practices in the car industry , with its epicentre in Japan , relies on a series of counterfactuals . Chapter 2 makes ...
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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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