LEADER 03602nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910784783103321 005 20230421044711.0 010 $a0-19-770274-0 010 $a1-280-65484-8 010 $a0-19-536097-4 010 $a1-4237-6468-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000400598 035 $a(EBL)271260 035 $a(OCoLC)476006745 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000131407 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129173 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131407 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10026068 035 $a(PQKB)10622205 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL271260 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279373 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL65484 035 $a(OCoLC)466424569 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271260 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000400598 100 $a19920609d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCountry competitiveness$b[electronic resource] $etechnology and the organizing of work /$fedited by Bruce Kogut 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-507277-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Wu?rttemberg 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 327 $a6. 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 327 $a12. 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 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aCompetition$vCase studies 606 $aCompetition, International$vCase studies 606 $aIndustrial management$vCase studies 615 0$aCompetition 615 0$aCompetition, International 615 0$aIndustrial management 676 $a338/.064 701 $aKogut$b Bruce Mitchel$0140086 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784783103321 996 $aCountry competitiveness$93854247 997 $aUNINA