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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... methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth, but one which sheds light on cultural responses to the attendant stresses of globalization ...
... methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the 'lean and flexible' production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth, but one which sheds light on cultural responses to the attendant stresses of globalization ...
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... myth 118 7. Rethinking lean thinking : substance and counterfeit 145 8. The totalizing myth : Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction 161 References 181 Index 193 1. Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency The basic method.
... myth 118 7. Rethinking lean thinking : substance and counterfeit 145 8. The totalizing myth : Japanese efficiency as a cultural fiction 161 References 181 Index 193 1. Introducing the myth of Japanese efficiency The basic method.
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... method of producing automobiles changed very little between 1913 , when Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line , and the 1970s , when a radi- cally new system of production began to emerge in Japan . ( Dicken 2003 : 364 ) ...
... method of producing automobiles changed very little between 1913 , when Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line , and the 1970s , when a radi- cally new system of production began to emerge in Japan . ( Dicken 2003 : 364 ) ...
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... methods in the car and other industries . This , it will be recalled , was that the car industry had become ( by the 1970s ) a mature industry , locked into a partic- ular form of volume production based on large capital investments ...
... methods in the car and other industries . This , it will be recalled , was that the car industry had become ( by the 1970s ) a mature industry , locked into a partic- ular form of volume production based on large capital investments ...
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... methods in the car industry as well as new micro- processing technologies ( see Altshuler et al . 1984 : 135 ) ; but our interest is less with this , since it is not our contention that global myth - making about the historical progress ...
... methods in the car industry as well as new micro- processing technologies ( see Altshuler et al . 1984 : 135 ) ; but our interest is less with this , since it is not our contention that global myth - making about the historical progress ...
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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