Jonathan Zeitlin / Gary Herrigel (eds.)

Americanization and Its Limits

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Their findings will be of compelling interest not only to historians and social scientists concerned with the dynamics of post-war economic growth and industrial development, but also to those engaged in contemporary debates about the cross-national transfer and diffusion of productive models.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780198295556
• ISBN-10: 0198295553
• Artikelnr.: 21872950

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; and Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Gary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science, 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