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Americanization and its limits : reworking US technology and management in post-war Europe and Japan / edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative management--Congresses.
- Comparative management.
- Industrial management--Europe--Congresses.
- Industrial management.
- Industrial management--Japan--Congresses.
- Industrial management--United States--Congresses.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Congresses.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (429 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A new and distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War. The distinguished international contributors analyse the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and, strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen, yet remarkably competitive ways. Of compelling interest inparticular to historians and social scientists concerned with the dynamics of post-war economic growth and industrial development.
- Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan; Part One: Exporting the American Model?; 2. Americanization: Ideology or Process? The Case of the United States Technical Assistance and Productivity Programme; 3. Transplanting the American Model? US Automobile Companies and the Transfer of Technology and Management to Britain, France, and Germany,
- Part Two: Reworking US Technology and Management: National,Sectoral,and Firm-Level Variations4. Americanizing British Engineering? Strategic Debate, Selective Adaptation, and Hybrid Innovation in Post-War Reconstruction,; 5. Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Model; 6. Creative Cross-Fertilization and Uneven Americanization of Swedish Industry: Sources of Innovation in Post-War Motor Vehicles and Electrical Manufacturing; 7. A Slow and Difficult Process: The Americanization of the French Steel-Producing and Using Industries after the Second World War
- 8. Remodelling the Italian Steel Industry: Americanization, Modernization, and Mass Production9. Mass Production or 'Organized Craftsmanship'? The Post-War Italian Automobile Industry; 10. The Long Shadow of Americanization: The German Rubber Industry and the Radial Tyre Revolution; 11. The Evolution of the 'Japanese Production System': Indigenous Influences and American Impact; 12. American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Reconfiguring the Steel Industry in Japan and Germany after the Second World War; 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:
- Selected and revised proceedings of two workshops.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-154465-5
- OCLC:
- 658114761
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