Lauge Rasmussen, Felix Rauner

Industrial Cultures and Production

Understanding Competitiveness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains a selection of articles on the subject of 'Culture and Production'. They are results of international conferences held in Tokyo, Washington and Bremen between 1991 and 1994. The International Research Network on Culture and Production (CAPIRN) carried out a 5-year joint research project examining the impact of different industrial cultures on the development and implementation, and above all on the international transfer of technology. The machine tools sector was selected for this international comparative study, because over the last 15 years this global market has undergone dramatic changes that cannot be adequately explained by traditional economic theories of international competition. The 'industrial culture' research concept permits an analysis and understanding of hitherto unrecognised interrelationships between the dimensions of different industrial cultures and the process of technological innovation in international competition. The special challengefaced by CAPIRN was to develop the theoretical concept of industrial culture further and to apply it within a large-scale international study. A considerable amount of work in this field has been published by CAPIRN members since 1990. This book is the first compilation of research findings in the field of industrial culture. We wish to express our thanks to the national research councils in the participant countries, the FORCE and FAST programmes of the European Union, the Japanese Ministry for Industry, MITI, and the Hans Bockler Foundation, to mention only some of the many bodies that have provided support.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer London / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-76029-0
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 391g
• ISBN-13: 9783540760290
• ISBN-10: 3540760296
• Artikelnr.: 26641581

Autorenporträt

Felix Rauner ist Professor am Institut Technik und Bildung der Universität Bremen.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Scientific Concepts of Industrial Culture.- 1. Industrial Culture and Production - Towards a New Research Approach.- 2. Industrial Cultures - Theory and Methods of Cross-National Comparisons.- 3. The Cultural and Social Shaping of Factory Automation: Towards a New Research Agenda.- 4. Industrial Culture and Design Methodology.- 5. Industrial Culture and Software Production.- 6. Industrial Culture - An Action-Oriented View at Innovation and Production.- Section II: Empirical Investigations of Competitiveness of the Machine Tool Industry in Different Industrial Cultures.- 7. Research and Development Activities to Enhance Market Competitiveness of Products in Japanese Machine Tool Industry.- 8. Synthetic, Pragmatic, Analytic - A Comparison of the Japanese, American and German Approaches to Machine Tool Design.- 9. The Machine Tool Industry in Germany and the United States from the Perspective of Industrial Culture.- 10. Industrial Cultures and Machine Tool Industries: Competitiveness and Innovation Trajectories.- 11. Shop Floor Oriented Programming - Experience from a Joint Development Project with the German Machine Tool Industry.- 12. The Social Shaping of Machine Tool Design and Manufacture in the United Kingdom: Some Preliminary Findings.- Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness.