03606nam 2200637Ia 450 991045817950332120200520144314.01-280-65484-80-19-536097-41-4237-6468-4(CKB)1000000000400598(EBL)271260(OCoLC)476006745(SSID)ssj0000131407(PQKBManifestationID)11129173(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131407(PQKBWorkID)10026068(PQKB)10622205(MiAaPQ)EBC271260(Au-PeEL)EBL271260(CaPaEBR)ebr10279373(CaONFJC)MIL65484(OCoLC)466424569(EXLCZ)99100000000040059819920609d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCountry competitiveness[electronic resource] technology and the organizing of work /edited by Bruce KogutNew York Oxford University Pressc19931 online resource (281 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-507277-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Industry6. 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 Differences12. 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; WThis 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.CompetitionCase studiesCompetition, InternationalCase studiesIndustrial managementCase studiesElectronic books.CompetitionCompetition, InternationalIndustrial management338/.064Kogut Bruce Mitchel897975MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458179503321Country competitiveness2259085UNINA