| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I: Organizing of Work and Technology: Comparisons of Country Patterns; 1. Large Firms, Small Firms, and the Governance of Flexible Specialization: The Case of Baden Württemberg and Socialized Risk; 2. Country Patterns in R & D Organization: The United States and Japan; 3. Work Organization in Japan and the United States; 4. The Societal Effect in the Strategies of French and West German Machine-Tool Manufacturers; II: New Technologies and New Patterns of Organizing; 5. Rationalization and Work in German Industry |
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6. National and Company Differences in Organizing Production Work in the Car Industry7. New Technology and the Organization of Work: British and Japanese Factories; 8. The Shaping of Software Systems in Manufacturing: The Implementation of Network Technologies in British Industries; 9. A French-style Sociotechnical Learning Process: The Robotization of Automobile Body Shops; III: Diffusion of New Ways of Organizing; 10. The Diffusion of American Organiz |
| Summary |
This monograph uses case studies to demonstrate that competition, whether amongst countries or firms, is driven by advantages that cannot easily be imitated or diffused. The main advantages discussed are the organizational practices of companies and relations between firms and other institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Competition -- Case studies
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Competition, International -- Case studies
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Industrial management -- Case studies
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Competition
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Competition, International
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Industrial management
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
92022897 |
| ISBN |
9780195360974 |
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0195360974 |
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1280654848 |
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9781280654848 |
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1423764684 |
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9781423764687 |
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