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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... issues are also noted , pointing to unresolved questions for future research of 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 ...
... issues are also noted , pointing to unresolved questions for future research of 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 ...
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... issues we are concerned with , considered progressively , seem to point towards something more than the mere substance of ' key ' publications . So far as issues of operations management are concerned , any account of a manufacturing ...
... issues we are concerned with , considered progressively , seem to point towards something more than the mere substance of ' key ' publications . So far as issues of operations management are concerned , any account of a manufacturing ...
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... issues of operations management . To this end , it broaches the question of comparative flexibility in assembly operations from the particular viewpoint of the ' width ' of selection offered to prospective customers . In this context ...
... issues of operations management . To this end , it broaches the question of comparative flexibility in assembly operations from the particular viewpoint of the ' width ' of selection offered to prospective customers . In this context ...
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... issues . The presumption that Japan's assemblers stole a march over Western rivals - allegedly confined to ' Fordist mass production ' by being leaders in the introduction of mixed - assembly systems is counterfactual : in this sphere ...
... issues . The presumption that Japan's assemblers stole a march over Western rivals - allegedly confined to ' Fordist mass production ' by being leaders in the introduction of mixed - assembly systems is counterfactual : in this sphere ...
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... issues , not least the tacit assumptions made in controversies of this type about ' national ' - British , Japanese and German - manufacturing attributes . Chapter 4 ( ' Lean production : the dog that did not bark ' ) steps back from ...
... issues , not least the tacit assumptions made in controversies of this type about ' national ' - British , Japanese and German - manufacturing attributes . Chapter 4 ( ' Lean production : the dog that did not bark ' ) steps back from ...
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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