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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... production models and 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 ...
... production models and 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 ...
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... Production malapropisms : the BMW - Rover Group controversy 4. Lean production : the dog that did not bark 5. Back to the future : the reorganization of work at Toyota 1 15 44 69 98 6. Rivalrous asymmetries and the Japanese myth 118 7 ...
... Production malapropisms : the BMW - Rover Group controversy 4. Lean production : the dog that did not bark 5. Back to the future : the reorganization of work at Toyota 1 15 44 69 98 6. Rivalrous asymmetries and the Japanese myth 118 7 ...
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... manufacture of complex goods : this we challenge . We argue , for example , that the ' lean and flexible ' production now popularly asso- ciated with the Japanese car assembler Toyota is unacceptable if viewed in historical and ...
... manufacture of complex goods : this we challenge . We argue , for example , that the ' lean and flexible ' production now popularly asso- ciated with the Japanese car assembler Toyota is unacceptable if viewed in historical and ...
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... production inflexible versus flex- ible , task work versus team work , low trust versus high trust , integrated ... lean production system ' of the Japanese automobile industry . The worldwide exports of cars and consumer elec- tronics ...
... production inflexible versus flex- ible , task work versus team work , low trust versus high trust , integrated ... lean production system ' of the Japanese automobile industry . The worldwide exports of cars and consumer elec- tronics ...
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... lean ' production system in fact gave more support to the opposite thesis , namely that Toyota and other Japanese car assemblers were at this time struggling to transform operatives ' working time into output . ( c ) It will be ...
... lean ' production system in fact gave more support to the opposite thesis , namely that Toyota and other Japanese car assemblers were at this time struggling to transform operatives ' working time into output . ( c ) It will be ...
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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