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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... operations to produce a finished product , is for this reason indelibly associated in the popular mind in the West today with one particular industry ; and if the car industry is again cast as a leading industry that meters the pace and ...
... operations to produce a finished product , is for this reason indelibly associated in the popular mind in the West today with one particular industry ; and if the car industry is again cast as a leading industry that meters the pace and ...
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... operations management are concerned , any account of a manufacturing process encounters an obvious difficulty , lucidly explained in an elegant review of the issues involved in the interpretation of artifacts in the history of ...
... operations management are concerned , any account of a manufacturing process encounters an obvious difficulty , lucidly explained in an elegant review of the issues involved in the interpretation of artifacts in the history of ...
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... 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 , the point ...
... 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 , the point ...
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... operations falls to the ground . - At the same time , there are deeper issues . The presumption that Japan's assemblers stole a march over Western rivals - allegedly confined to ' Fordist mass production ' by being leaders in the ...
... operations falls to the ground . - At the same time , there are deeper issues . The presumption that Japan's assemblers stole a march over Western rivals - allegedly confined to ' Fordist mass production ' by being leaders in the ...
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... operations aspects of manufacturing ' flexibility ' to consider instead . resource use at the level of labour productivity at different measured levels of plant automation . More specifically , it looks again at the findings of the MIT ...
... operations aspects of manufacturing ' flexibility ' to consider instead . resource use at the level of labour productivity at different measured levels of plant automation . More specifically , it looks again at the findings of the MIT ...
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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