Transformation to Agility - Manufacturing in the Marketplace of Unanticipated Change

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Amos Zusammenfassung This book, first published in 1998, examines the massive transition currently taking place: the decline of the system of mass manufacturing. Various global changes in American business and manufacturing have forced a review of accepted thinking, and this book is a key text in this evaluation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Stages of Manufacturing 3. Manufacturing in the 21st Century 4. Methodology 5. Development of a Theory of Agility 6. Case 1: Arrowplane and Composit Materials, Inc. 7. Case 2: Thompson Enterprises and Bilmo Incorporated 8. Agility and the Global Aerospace Industry 9. Creating a Measure of Agility 10. Analysis and Model Revisions

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Amos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780815380313
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8031-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics; Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, United States of America, USA, Manufacturing industries, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history