One Best Way?

Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World's Automobile Producers

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Av Michel Freyssenet, Andrew Mair, Koichi Shimizu, Giuseppe Volpato, Paris) Freyssenet, Michel (Research Director at CNRS-Paris, and Co-Director of GERPISA and First International GERPISA Programme, Research Director at CNRS-Paris, and Co-Director of GERPISA and First International GERPISA Programme, University of Evry, University of London) Mair, Andrew (Lecturer in Management, Lecturer in Management, Birkbeck College, Japan) Shimizu, Koichi (Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics, Okayama University, Venice) Volpato, Giuseppe (Professor of Business Economics, Professor of Business Economics, Ca' Foscari University, Kiochi Shimizu

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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, HyundaiNorth America: General Motors, Ford, ChryslerEurope: Peugeot, Renault, Rover, Mercedes, Volvo, LadaThe 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'.