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One Best Way?: Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World's Automobile Producers

One Best Way?: Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World's Automobile Producers


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Many argue that the sole viable future for the automobile industry - indeed for all industry - is the adoption of `lean production' as an organizational model. One Best Way? brings together the research of academic specialists in the automobile industry who have analysed the evolution of 15 major Asian, North American, and European companies in terms of their technological, organizational, commercial and social `trajectories'. They look closely at the evidence for `one best way' and argue that it is more useful to assess the distinctive challenges and `trajectories' that companies have pursued as they try to optimize their profit-making capacities. The book present detailed descriptions of the major producers around the world in three sections: Asia: Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Hyundai North America: General Motors, Ford, Chrysler Europe: Peugeot, Renault, Rover, Mercedes, Volvo, Lada The book will be essential reading and reference for academics, researchers, and analysts worldwide wanting to track the course of the automobile industry and assess the merits of `lean production'.

Table of Contents:
Michel Freyssenet: Introduction 1: Michel Freyssenet: Intersecting Trajectories and Model Changes 2: Daniel Raff: Models, Trajectories, and the Evolution of Production Systems: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry in the Years Between the Wars Part I. Only One Model in Japan? 3: Kiochi Shimizu: New Toyotaism? 4: Masanori Hanada: Nissan: Restructuring to Regain Competitiveness 5: Andrew Mair: The Globalization of Honda's Product-Led Flexible Mass Production System 6: Kiochi Shimizu and Kiochi Shimokawa: The Unique Trajectory of Mitsubishi Motors 7: Myeong-Kee Chung: Hyundai Tries Two Industrial Models to Penetrate Global Markets Part II. Three Distinct Trajectories at North America's Big Three 8: Michael Flynn: The General-Motors Trajectory: Strategic Shift or Tactical Drift? 9: Gerard Bordenave: Globalization at the Heart of Organizational Change: Crisis and Recovery at the Ford Motor Company 10: Bruce Belowski: Re-Inventing Chrysler Part III. Europe's Dilemma: The Original Conditions of Industrial Model's Viability 11: Ulrich Jürgens: The Development of Volkswagen's Industrial Model, 1967-1995 12: Arnaldo Camuffo and Giuseppe Volpato: Making Manufacturing Lean in the Italian Automobile Industry: The Trajectory of Fiat 13: Jean-Louis Loubet: Peugeot Meets Ford, Sloan, and Toyota 14: Michel Freyssenet: Renault: From Diversified Mass Production to Innovative Flexible Production 15: Andrew Mair: From British Leyland Motor Corporation to Rover Group: The Search for a Viable British Model 16: Christian Berggren: A Second Comeback or a Final Farewell? The Volvo Trajectory, 1973-1994 17: Jean-Jaques Chanaron: Lada: Viability of Fordism? 18: Michel Freyssenet, Andrew Mair, Kiochi Shimizu, and Giuseppe Volpato: Conclusion: The Choices to be made in the Coming Decade


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198290896
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World's Automobile Producers
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198290896
  • Publisher Date: 26 Nov 1998
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 494
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Weight: 824 gr


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