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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... particular industry ; and if the car industry is again cast as a leading industry that meters the pace and direction of change in industry and in industrial society more generally , then this is how it was before . But the radical ...
... particular industry ; and if the car industry is again cast as a leading industry that meters the pace and direction of change in industry and in industrial society more generally , then this is how it was before . But the radical ...
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... particular regard to process flexibility , resource productivity and the organiza- tion of work . It first establishes a systemic non - correspondence between what is said and what can be demonstrated on behalf of the Japanese ...
... particular regard to process flexibility , resource productivity and the organiza- tion of work . It first establishes a systemic non - correspondence between what is said and what can be demonstrated on behalf of the Japanese ...
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... particular industry ( cars ) are in this way duly held to be reflective of a more fundamental transformation in industrial society : Japan's car assemblers appear here in a double role , playing a part as both agents and emblems . A ...
... particular industry ( cars ) are in this way duly held to be reflective of a more fundamental transformation in industrial society : Japan's car assemblers appear here in a double role , playing a part as both agents and emblems . A ...
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... particular regard to the cultural contexts within which a myth , or a set of myths , about production - the factory , the business , the consumer - can gain currency or grow . This theme is tentatively explored throughout the ...
... particular regard to the cultural contexts within which a myth , or a set of myths , about production - the factory , the business , the consumer - can gain currency or grow . This theme is tentatively explored throughout the ...
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... particular context for this comment is the difficulties entailed in setting out accurate and comprehensible descriptions of the work of artisans , but the general sense is true : it is not easy to describe , succinctly and with a fair ...
... particular context for this comment is the difficulties entailed in setting out accurate and comprehensible descriptions of the work of artisans , but the general sense is true : it is not easy to describe , succinctly and with a fair ...
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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