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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... question pertains to the alleged appearance in Japan - and evident from the early 1970s - of a new way of organizing the manufacture of complex goods : this we challenge . We argue , for example , that the ' lean and flexible ...
... question pertains to the alleged appearance in Japan - and evident from the early 1970s - of a new way of organizing the manufacture of complex goods : this we challenge . We argue , for example , that the ' lean and flexible ...
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... questions that can be subjected to further investigation , and can in particular be tested against material evidence . The ... question of comparative flexibility in assembly operations from the particular viewpoint of the ' width ' of ...
... questions that can be subjected to further investigation , and can in particular be tested against material evidence . The ... question of comparative flexibility in assembly operations from the particular viewpoint of the ' width ' of ...
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... question of ' team work ' in the car industry . If the first set of chapters explore some substantive problems vis - a - vis the production methods and practices that have been identified with a Japanese- led revolution of production ...
... question of ' team work ' in the car industry . If the first set of chapters explore some substantive problems vis - a - vis the production methods and practices that have been identified with a Japanese- led revolution of production ...
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... question is the extent to which vocal critics of ' Japanization ' have endorsed a poorly founded set of claims concerning manufacturing practices at the cost of a more realistic assessment of the discontents of globalization and the ...
... question is the extent to which vocal critics of ' Japanization ' have endorsed a poorly founded set of claims concerning manufacturing practices at the cost of a more realistic assessment of the discontents of globalization and the ...
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... questions of product supply and product management , and a number of passages reflect the perspectives set out by various writers who contributed to this issue . Other influences are acknowledged at appropriate junctures in the main ...
... questions of product supply and product management , and a number of passages reflect the perspectives set out by various writers who contributed to this issue . Other influences are acknowledged at appropriate junctures in the main ...
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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