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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... world market for manufactured goods. Human resource management specialists interested in best production practice will also find much to interest them within this book. The Myth of Japanese Efficiency This One HZGZ - GTC.
... world market for manufactured goods. Human resource management specialists interested in best production practice will also find much to interest them within this book. The Myth of Japanese Efficiency This One HZGZ - GTC.
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... interest as much to cultural anthropologists as to economic and business analysis . 1.2 THESIS AND SCOPE To avoid misunderstandings at the outset , it is not intended to argue that Japanese car assemblers are inefficient - there is no ...
... interest as much to cultural anthropologists as to economic and business analysis . 1.2 THESIS AND SCOPE To avoid misunderstandings at the outset , it is not intended to argue that Japanese car assemblers are inefficient - there is no ...
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... interest to academics and others adopting a wider purview , and with particular regard to the cultural contexts ... interests of Japan and Japanese transnational corporations and the resurgent confidence of Western capitalism . In ...
... interest to academics and others adopting a wider purview , and with particular regard to the cultural contexts ... interests of Japan and Japanese transnational corporations and the resurgent confidence of Western capitalism . In ...
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... interest is less with this , since it is not our contention that global myth - making about the historical progress of a major industry , one moreover that is the subject of close scrutiny by large bodies of professional industry ...
... interest is less with this , since it is not our contention that global myth - making about the historical progress of a major industry , one moreover that is the subject of close scrutiny by large bodies of professional industry ...
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... interest and controversy . The chapter sequence reflects , nonetheless , the overall progression of the main thesis of the study . Chapter 2 ( ' Wide selection : a myth encountered ' ) can be viewed on one level as dealing with ...
... interest and controversy . The chapter sequence reflects , nonetheless , the overall progression of the main thesis of the study . Chapter 2 ( ' Wide selection : a myth encountered ' ) can be viewed on one level as dealing with ...
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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