Manufacturing possibilities: creative action and industrial recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan

Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. Using detailed historical and interview based contemporary analysis, the book looks at how national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets. INDICE: Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, andIndustrial Recomposition; Part I: Industrial Recomposition: The Steel Industry in Post-World War II United States, Germany, and Japan; Industrial Recomposition: The Steel Industry in Post-World War II United States, Germany, and Japan; 1: American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Restructuring the steel industry in Japan and Germany after World War II; 2: Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the US 1950-1974; 3: Left for Dead? Recombinant Steel Industries in Germany, Japan and the US since 1974; Part II: Contemporary Recomposition in the US and Germany: Coping with Vertical Disintegration on a Global Scale; 4: Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer-Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex ManufacturingSupply Chains; 5: Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: DisintegratedProduction and Its Globalization; 6: Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the US compared; 7: Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany; Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955773-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 15/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés