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Klappentext Recent years have seen intense debates among management and academics on the rise of "lean production" and "Japanization." This book examines in detail the actual practice of transfer and adaptation of productive models into the auto industry. Case studies cover the Japanese transplant experience in North America, and the global experience of hybrid production systems in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Zusammenfassung There have been debates about "lean production" and "Japanization". The focus for this text and debate has been the international automobile industry, which has been examined for practice of transfer, adaptation of productive models and trajectories of innovation, compromise and possible failure. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Tolliday, Boyer, Charron, and Jürgens: Introduction: Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry Part I. Theory and History 2: Boyer: Hybridization and Models of Production: Geography, History, and Theory 3: Tolliday: The Diffusion and Transformation of Fordism: Britain and Japan Compared Part II. Between Transfer and Hybridization 4: Mishina: Making Toyota in America: Evidence from the Kentucky Transplant 1986-1994 5: Adler, Goldoftas, and Levine: Stability and Change at NUMMI 6: Babson: Mazda and Ford at Flat Rock: Transfer and Hybridization of the Japanese Model 7: Florida, Jenkins, and Smith: The Japanese Transplants in North America: Production Organization, Location, and Research and Development 8: Abo: Hybridization of the Japanese Production System in North America, the Newly Industrializing Economies, South-East Asia, and Europe: Contrasted Configurations Part III. Between Adaptation and Innovation 9: Dankbaar: The NedCar Experience: The Configuration of Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese Ideas about Car Manufacturing 10: Charron: FASA Renault: Innovation in Productive Flexibility and Job Security 11: Fleury and Salerno: The Transfer and Hybridization of New Models of Production in the Brazilian Automobile Industry 12: Carrillo and Montiel: Ford's Hermosillo Plant: The Trajectory of Development of a Hybrid Model 13: Jürgens: Implanting Change: The Role of `Indigenous Transplants' in Transforming the German Productive Model 14: Kiefer: Volkswagen's Shanghai Plant: Between Chinese Tradition and Modernization Strategy 15: Pil and Rubinstein: Saturn: A Different Kind of Company? 16: Tolliday, Boyer, Charron, and Jürgens: Conclusion: Transplants, Hybridization, and Globalization: What Lessons for the Future ...
