Manufacturing Possibilities
Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 November 2012
- ISBN 9780199665983
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 233x164x15 mm
- Weight 468 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile, and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. Using detailed historical and interview based contemporary analysis, the book looks at how national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets.
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Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. As national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets, the book argues that they recompose firm and industry boundaries, stakeholder identities and interests, and governance mechanisms at all levels of their political economies. Micro level study of industrial transformation in this way provides a significant window on macro level processes of political economic change in the three societies.
Theoretically, the book marks a departure from both neoliberal economic and historical institutionalist perspectives on change in advanced political economies. It characterizes industrial change as a creative, bottom-up process driven by reflective social actors. This alternative view consists of two distinctive claims. The first is that action is social, reflective, and ultimately creative. When their interactive habits are disrupted, industrial actors seek to repair their relations by reconceiving them. Such imaginative interaction redefines interest and causes unforeseen possibilities for action to emerge, enabling actors to trump existing rules and constraints. Second, industrial change driven by creative action is recompositional. In the social process of reflection, actors rearrange, modify, reconceive, and reposition inherited organizational forms and governance mechanisms as they experiment with solutions to the challenges that they face. Continuity in relations is interwoven with continuous reform and change. Most remarkably, creativity in the recomposition process makes the introduction of entirely new practices and relations possible.
Ultimately, the message of Manufacturing Possibilities is that social study of change in advanced political economies should devote itself to the discovery of possibility. Preoccupation with constraint and failure to appreciate the capaciousness of reflective social action has led much of contemporary debate to misrecognize the dynamics of change. As a result, discussion of the range of adjustment possibilities in advanced political economies has been unnecessarily limited.
There are very few well known social and political theorists who have engaged as extensively and over as long a period of time time in the analysis of industrial change in Germany and other leading economies as Gary Herrigel...At a time when much social scientific attention seems to be directed toward the emigration of industry from developed economies to emerging ones,this book's pragmatic theoretical argument and extensive historical analysis of the continual recomposition of traditional industries and regions has a very high value...In general, the book is a great resource for anyone who believes that manufacturing in developed economies has a future.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, and Industrial Recomposition
Part I: Industrial Recomposition: The Steel Industry in Post-World War II United States, Germany, and Japan
American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Restructuring the steel industry in Japan and Germany after World War II
Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the US 1950-1974
Left for Dead? Recombinant Steel Industries in Germany, Japan, and the US since 1974
Part II: Contemporary Recomposition in the US and Germany: Coping with Vertical Disintegration on a Global Scale
Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer-Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains
Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and its Globalization
Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the US Compared
Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation, and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany
Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power, and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities
