Jonathan Zeitlin (ed.)

Americanization and Its Limits

Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan
Herausgeber: Herrigel, Gary; Zeitlin, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

It will be of compelling interest to historians, social scientists and business academics concerned with the dynamics of economic and corporate growth, industrial development, and the diffusion of productive and business models.

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This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight 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 and often remarkably competitive ways.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780199269044
• ISBN-10: 0199269041
• Artikelnr.: 21285274

Autorenporträt

Jonanthan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a co-director of the European Union Center. He has been a consultant on industrial and labour market policy for the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the Greater London Council. Gary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: Introduction: Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US
Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan
* Part I: Exporting the American Model?
* Chapter 2: Americanization: Ideology or Process? The Case of the US
Technical Assistance and Productivity Program
* Chapter 3: Transplanting the American Model? US Automobile Companies
and the Transfer of Technology and Management to Europe after the
Second World War
* Part II: Reworking US Technology and Management: National, Sectoral,
and Firm-Level Variations
* A: Britain and Sweden
* Chapter 4: Americanizing British Engineering? Strategic Debate,
Selective Adaptation, and Hybrid Innovation in Post-War
Reconstruction
* Chapter 5: Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the
American Lesson
* Chapter 6: Creative Cross-Fertilization and Uneven Americanization of
Swedish Industry: Sources of Innovation in Post-War Motor Vehicles
and Electrical Manufacturing
* B: France and Italy
* Chapter 7: A Slow and Difficult Process: The Americanization of the
French Steel Producing and Using Industries after World War II
* Chapter 8: Remodelling the Italian Steel Industry: Americanization,
Modernization, and Mass Production
* Chapter 9: Mass Production or 'Organized Craftsmanship'? The Post-War
Italian Automobile Industry
* C: Germany and Japan
* Chapter 10: The Long Shadow of Americanization: The German Rubber
Industry and the Radial Tire Revolution
* Chapter 11: The Evolution of the 'Japanese Production System':
Indigenous Influences and American Impact
* Chapter 12: American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy:
Reconfiguring the Japanese and German Steel Industries after World
War II