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Zusatztext One hopes that this volume will be read by comparative political economists and management scholars as well [as]... political scientists [and] historians... The view that innovation can stem entirely from the hybridization of codified techniques with local circumstances is only one of its more striking theoretical insights. This is a most engaging and impressive set of essays. Informationen zum Autor Jonanthan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a co-director of the European Union Center. He has been a consultant on industrial and labour market policy for the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the Greater London Council.Gary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA. Klappentext This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War! based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and! strikingly! in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often remarkably competitive ways. Zusammenfassung This analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after World War II, reveals the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and to create new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen, yet competitive ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan Part I: Exporting the American Model? Chapter 2: Americanization: Ideology or Process? The Case of the US Technical Assistance and Productivity Program Chapter 3: Transplanting the American Model? US Automobile Companies and the Transfer of Technology and Management to Europe after the Second World War Part II: Reworking US Technology and Management: National, Sectoral, and Firm-Level Variations A: Britain and Sweden Chapter 4: Americanizing British Engineering? Strategic Debate, Selective Adaptation, and Hybrid Innovation in Post-War Reconstruction Chapter 5: Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Lesson Chapter 6: Creative Cross-Fertilization and Uneven Americanization of Swedish Industry: Sources of Innovation in Post-War Motor Vehicles and Electrical Manufacturing B: France and Italy Chapter 7: A Slow and Difficult Process: The Americanization of the French Steel Producing and Using Industries after World War II Chapter 8: Remodelling the Italian Steel Industry: Americanization, Modernization, and Mass Production Chapter 9: Mass Production or 'Organized Craftsmanship'? The Post-War Italian Automobile Industry C: Germany and Japan Chapter 10: The Long Shadow of Americanization: The German Rubber Industry and the Radial Tire Revolution Chapter 11: The Evolution of the 'Japanese Production System': Indigenous Influences and American Impact Chapter 12: American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Reconfiguring the Japanese and German Steel Industries after World War II ...
