Assembling work : remaking factory regimes in Japanese multinationals in Britain / Tony Elger and Chris Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elger, Tony, 1946-

Contributor:

Smith, Chris, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations, Japanese--Great Britain.

Corporations, Japanese.

Foreign subsidiaries--Great Britain.

Foreign subsidiaries.

Manufacturing industries--Great Britain--Foreign ownership.

Manufacturing industries.

Industrial relations--Great Britain.

Industrial relations.

Industrial management--Japan.

Industrial management.

International business enterprises.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research, undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s.The authors argue that in actual fact production and employment regimes are adapted and 're-made' in a number of ways, responding to specific corporate and local contexts. In particular, they focus upon the ways in which Japanese and British managers have sought to construct distinctive work

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Part I: Theoretical Issues; 1. Transplants, Transfer, and Work Transformation ; 2. The Japanese Model and its Implications for International Transfer and Work Transformation ; 3. The Internationalization of Japanese Manufacturing ; 4. A Framework for Analysing Work Organization and Employment Relations in an International Company ; 5. Researching Japanese Subsidiaries: The Strategy of Multiple Case-Study Research ; Part II: Manufacturing Subsidiaries: Cluster and Companies

6. Inward Investment and the Construction of New Production Spaces: The Case of Telford 7. Work and Employment Relations in Large Assembly Firms: 'Good Enough' Production Despite Problematical Employment Relations; 8. Work and Employment Relations in the Smaller Component Subcontractors: Distinctive Pressures and Contrasting Trajectories; 9. Computer-Co and Electric-Co: The Pursuit of Design and Development Capabilities ; Part III: Remaking Working Lives: Management and Workers; 10. Japanese and British Management: Alliances and Antagonisms

11. Shop-floor Consent, Accommodation, and Dissent 12. Theorizing Subsidiary Operations: System, Society, and Dominance Effects Revisited ; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-392) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-152912-5

9786610753512

1-4294-8880-8

1-280-75351-X

OCLC:

169945939