Manufacturing Culture
The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 February 2004
- ISBN 9780198233824
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 242x161x17 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process? Moreover, to what extent can such successful practices be replicated or 'manufactured' in other less fortunate locations? These questions constitute the central issues of concern for this book.
MoreLong description:
Recent years have seen a lively debate over the role of tacit knowledge and interactive learning in privileging the local over the global. Yet, our continuing inability to answer questions such as 'when and why is the local important in production and innovation processes?' indicates that our understanding of the firm and the forces that shape its managers' choices remains weak. Such a theory ought to be able to answer fundamental questions like: why do firms in particular places adopt particular production and innovation practices, and not others? What forces determine what a firm 'knows' and when it is able to act upon this knowledge? How easy is it to transfer this knowledge between places?
This book presents a new conception of industrial practice and firm behaviour. It explains how the cultures that shape the practices of firms and the trajectories of regional and national economies are actually produced. The analysis shows how the internal and inter-firm organization of production, use of technologies, and the industrial knowledge underpinning these practices are strongly influenced by their social and institutional context. Routine forms of behaviour are not simply inherited from past practice. Instead, they are shaped and constrained - though not wholly determined - by a set of institutions that govern how work is organized, workers are deployed, and technology is implemented. Because of the slowly evolving nature of these institutions, distinctive national 'models' are not converging around a single global norm.
Manufacturing Culture is a useful and helpful book for those who are interested in empirically grounded work on the relationship between the users and manufacturers of prodduction technology on both sides of the Atlantic.
Table of Contents:
Institutions, Agency, and Industrial Practices
Capital, Technology, and Economic Performance
Proximity, Organization, and Culture
Regional Cultures of Production
Crisis in Machinery Building: The Roots of Germany's Economic Malaise?
Tacit Knowledge in Geographical Context
Geography, Learning, and Convergence
Bibliography
Index
