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Between imitation and innovation : the transfer and hybridization of productive models in the international automobile industry

Author: Robert Boyer; et al
Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Document   Computer File : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Computer File, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Boyer; et al
ISBN: 0198293682 9780198293682
OCLC Number: 39210212
Description: xix, 394 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry / Steven Tolliday, Robert Boyer, Elsie Charron, and Ulrich Jurgens --
Theory and History --
Hybridization and Models of Production: Geography, History, and Theory / Robert Boyer --
The Diffusion and Transformation of Fordism: Britain and Japan Compared / Steven Tolliday --
Between Transfer and Hybridization --
Making Toyota in America: Evidence from the Kentucky Transplant, 1986-1994 / Kazuhiro Mishina --
Stability and Change at NUMMI / Paul S. Adler, Barbara Goldoftas, and David I. Levine --
Mazda and Ford at Flat Rock: Transfer and hybridization of the Japanese Model / Steve Babson --
The Japanese Transplants in North America: Production Organization, Location, and Research and Development / Richard Florida, Davis Jenkins, and Donald F. Smith --
Hybridization of the Japanese Production System in North America, Newly Industrializing Economies, South-East Asia, and Europe: Contrasted Configurations / Tetsuo Abo --
Between Adaptation and Innovation --
The NedCar Experience: The Confrontation of Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese Ideas about Car Manufacturing / Ben Dankbaar --
FASA Renault: Innovation in Productive Flexibility and Job Security / Elsie Charron --
The Transfer and Hybridization of New Models of Production in the Brazilian Automobile Industry / Afonso Fleury and Mario Sergio Salerno --
Ford's Hermosillo Plant: The Trajectory of Development of a Hybrid Model / Jorge Carrillo and Yolanda Montiel --
Implanting Change: The Role of 'Indigenous Transplants' in Transforming the German Productive Model / Ulrich Jurgens --
Volkswagen's Shanghai Plant: Between Chinese Tradition and Modernization Strategy --
Thomas Kiefer --
Saturn: A Different Kind of Company? / Frits K. Pil and Saul ubinstein --
Conclusion: Transplants, Hybridization, and Globalization: What Lessons for the Future? / Robert Boyer, Elsie Charron, Ulrich Jurgens, and Steven Tolliday --
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Responsibility: edited by Robert Boyer ... [et al.].
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