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基本説明
Concepts such as Post-Fordism and Flexible Specialisation have become central to our understanding of industrial societies and enjoy wide discussion in the social sciences.
Full Description
For the past century, manufacturing organisation and the industrial policies of governments have both been heavily influenced by models of how to achieve industrial efficiency. Beginning with the American model of standardised mass production, firms and governments throughout the world have sought to modernise manufacturing organisation according to such models as the means of national competitive advantage and economic success. This volume focuses on assessing the validity and influence of such models. Firstly, it examines the intense debates on the relative merits and the degree of diffusion of the main competing models of industrial efficiency and manufacturing organisation. Secondly, it considers the question of whether, in a period when all the major sources of models of manufacturing success - the USA, Germany, Japan and Italy - have encountered major difficulties, there are more effective strategies for reversing industrial decline.
