One Best Way?: Trajectories and Industrial Models of the World's Automobile Producers

by Michel Freyssenet, Andrew Mair, Kiochi Shimizu, Giuseppe Volpato

Overview

Since the 1960s, the world's automobile producers have been borrowing, adapting, or inventing solutions to problems. Japanese management techniques and ideas have been much studied and copied, particularly the model of "lean production." In this book, experts from many different countries compare and contrast the strategic and organizational solutions of the major producers in North American, Europe, and Japan over the past three decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198290896
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/25/1999
Pages:	494
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Evry, Paris

Birkbeck College, University of London

Okayama University

Ca'Foscari University, Venice

Table of Contents

Introduction, Michel Freyssenet1. Intersecting Trajectories and Model Changes, Michel Freyssenet2. Models, Trajectories, and the Evolution of Production Systems: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry in the Years Between the Wars, Daniel RaffPart I. Only One Model in Japan?3. New Toyotaism?, Kiochi Shimizu4. Nissan: Restructuring to Regain Competitiveness, Masanori Hanada5. The Globalization of Honda's Product-Led Flexible Mass Production System, Andrew Mair6. The Unique Trajectory of Mitsubishi Motors, Kiochi Shimizu and Kiochi Shimokawa7. Hyundai Tries Two Industrial Models to Penetrate Global Markets, Myeong-Kee ChungPart II. Three Distinct Trajectories at North America's Big Three8. The General-Motors Trajectory: Strategic Shift or Tactical Drift?, Michael Flynn9. Globalization at the Heart of Organizational Change: Crisis and Recovery at the Ford Motor Company, Gerard Bordenave10. Re-Inventing Chrysler, Bruce BelowskiPart III. Europe's Dilemma: The Original Conditions of Industrial Model's Viability11. The Development of Volkswagen's Industrial Model, 1967-1995, Ulrich Jürgens12. Making Manufacturing Lean in the Italian Automobile Industry: The Trajectory of Fiat, Arnaldo Camuffo and Giuseppe Volpato13. Peugeot Meets Ford, Sloan, and Toyota, Jean-Louis Loubet14. Renault: From Diversified Mass Production to Innovative Flexible Production, Michel Freyssenet15. From British Leyland Motor Corporation to Rover Group: The Search for a Viable British Model, Andrew Mair16. A Second Comeback or a Final Farewell? The Volvo Trajectory, 1973-1994, Christian Berggren17. Lada: Viability of Fordism?, Jean-Jaques Chanaron18. Conclusion: The Choices to be made in the Coming Decade, Michel Freyssenet, Andrew Mair, Kiochi Shimizu, and Giuseppe Volpato