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, USA
Publication date:	11/28/1998
Pages:	496
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 Freyssenet
1. Intersecting Trajectories and Model Changes, Michel Freyssenet
2. Models, Trajectories, and the Evolution of Production Systems: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry in the Years Between the Wars, Daniel Raff
Part I. Only One Model in Japan?
3. New Toyotaism?, Kiochi Shimizu
4. Nissan: Restructuring to Regain Competitiveness, Masanori Hanada
5. The Globalization of Honda's Product-Led Flexible Mass Production System, Andrew Mair
6. The Unique Trajectory of Mitsubishi Motors, Kiochi Shimizu and Kiochi Shimokawa
7. Hyundai Tries Two Industrial Models to Penetrate Global Markets, Myeong-Kee Chung
Part II. Three Distinct Trajectories at North America's Big Three
8. The General-Motors Trajectory: Strategic Shift or Tactical Drift?, Michael Flynn
9. Globalization at the Heart of Organizational Change: Crisis and Recovery at the Ford Motor Company, Gerard Bordenave
10. Re-Inventing Chrysler, Bruce Belowski
Part III. Europe's Dilemma: The Original Conditions of Industrial Model's Viability
11. The Development of Volkswagen's Industrial Model, 1967-1995, Ulrich Jürgens
12. Making Manufacturing Lean in the Italian Automobile Industry: The Trajectory of Fiat, Arnaldo Camuffo and Giuseppe Volpato
13. Peugeot Meets Ford, Sloan, and Toyota, Jean-Louis Loubet
14. Renault: From Diversified Mass Production to Innovative Flexible Production, Michel Freyssenet
15. From British Leyland Motor Corporation to Rover Group: The Search for a Viable British Model, Andrew Mair
16. A Second Comeback or a Final Farewell? The Volvo Trajectory, 1973-1994, Christian Berggren
17. Lada: Viability of Fordism?, Jean-Jaques Chanaron
18. Conclusion: The Choices to be made in the Coming Decade, Michel Freyssenet, Andrew Mair, Kiochi Shimizu, and Giuseppe Volpato