One Best Way?
Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World's Automobile Producers
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 November 1998
- ISBN 9780198290896
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages494 pages
- Size 242x162x31 mm
- Weight 824 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables 0
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Short description:
Since the late 1960s, the world's automobile producers have been borrowing, or inventing solutions to problems. Japanese management techniques have been much studied and copied, particularly the model of 'lean production'. In this book, experts from different countries compare and contrast the strategic and organizational solutions of the major producers in North America, Europe, and Japan over the past three decades.
MoreLong description:
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, Hyundai
North America: General Motors, Ford, Chrysler
Europe: Peugeot, Renault, Rover, Mercedes, Volvo, Lada
The 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'.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Intersecting Trajectories and Model Changes
Models, Trajectories, and the Evolution of Production Systems: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry in the Years Between the Wars
Part I. Only One Model in Japan?
New Toyotaism?
Nissan: Restructuring to Regain Competitiveness
The Globalization of Honda's Product-Led Flexible Mass Production System
The Unique Trajectory of Mitsubishi Motors
Hyundai Tries Two Industrial Models to Penetrate Global Markets
Part II. Three Distinct Trajectories at North America's Big Three
The General-Motors Trajectory: Strategic Shift or Tactical Drift?
Globalization at the Heart of Organizational Change: Crisis and Recovery at the Ford Motor Company
Re-Inventing Chrysler
Part III. Europe's Dilemma: The Original Conditions of Industrial Model's Viability
The Development of Volkswagen's Industrial Model, 1967-1995
Making Manufacturing Lean in the Italian Automobile Industry: The Trajectory of Fiat
Peugeot Meets Ford, Sloan, and Toyota
Renault: From Diversified Mass Production to Innovative Flexible Production
From British Leyland Motor Corporation to Rover Group: The Search for a Viable British Model
A Second Comeback or a Final Farewell? The Volvo Trajectory, 1973-1994
Lada: Viability of Fordism?
Conclusion: The Choices to be made in the Coming Decade
