Country competitiveness : technology and the organizing of work / edited by Bruce Kogut.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kogut, Bruce Mitchel, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition--Case studies.

Competition.

Competition, International--Case studies.

Competition, International.

Industrial management--Case studies.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770274-0

1-280-65484-8

0-19-536097-4

1-4237-6468-4

OCLC:

476006745