Country competitiveness [[electronic resource] ] : technology and the organizing of work / / edited by Bruce Kogut

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458179503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1993
• ISBN: 1-280-65484-8; 0-19-536097-4; 1-4237-6468-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KogutBruce Mitchel
• Disciplina: 338/.064
• Soggetti: Competition; Competition, International; Industrial management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I: Organizing of Work and Technology: Comparisons of Country Patterns; 1. Large Firms, Small Firms, and the Governance of Flexible Specialization: The Case of Baden Württemberg and Socialized Risk; 2. Country Patterns in R&D Organization: The United States and Japan; 3. Work Organization in Japan and the United States; 4. The Societal Effect in the Strategies of French and West German Machine-Tool Manufacturers; II: New Technologies and New Patterns of Organizing; 5. Rationalization and Work in German Industry; 6. National and Company Differences in Organizing Production Work in the Car Industry7. New Technology and the Organization of Work: British and Japanese Factories; 8. The Shaping of Software Systems in Manufacturing: The Implementation of Network Technologies in British Industries; 9. A French-style Sociotechnical Learning Process: The Robotization of Automobile Body Shops; III: Diffusion of New Ways of Organizing; 10. The Diffusion of American Organizing Principles to Europe; 11. The Governance of Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Affiliates in the U.K.: Some Country-specific Differences; 12. Supplying the Toyota Production System: Intercorporate Organizational Evolution and Supplier SubsystemsIV: Concluding Notes; 13. National Specificities and the Context of Change: The Coevolution of Organization and Technology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph uses case studies to demonstrate that competition, whether amongst countries or firms, is driven by advantages that cannot easily be imitated or diffused. The main advantages discussed are the organizational practices of companies and relations between firms and other institutions.