Americanization and its Limits

Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Av Jonathan Zeitlin, Gary Herrigel, Italy) Zeitlin, Jonathan (Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Jean Monnet Fellow, Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, USA) Herrigel, Gary (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

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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. Their findings will be of compelling interest not only to historians and social scientists concerned with the dynamics of post-war economic growth and industrial development, but also to those engaged in contemporary debates about the cross-national transfer and diffusion of productive models.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-03-23
Mått163 x 242 x 28 mm
Vikt756 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor430
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198295556

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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