Industrial RenaissanceResearch report on production management, manufacturing competitiveness, and the evolutionary process of technologys, based on a case study of the USA motor vehicle industry - discusses Innovation trends 1893-1981, causes of current industrial decline (incl. De- maturity, technological obsolescence, competition and labour relations); provides comparisons of labour productivity, labour costs and production costs with Japan; stresses the need for product development, workers participation, and quality of working life. Graphs, references. |
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The New Industrial Competition | 3 |
The Logic of DeMaturity | 15 |
The American System of Manufacturing | 30 |
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Abernathy adjustments Allan Nevins Aluminum assembly auto Automatic Transmission automobile industry Automotive Innovations 1893-1981 Brake Buick GM buyers Cadillac GM capital chapter Chevrolet Chevette Chevrolet GM Chrysler competence components Consumer Reports Control core concepts costs de-maturity design concepts design hierarchy diversity domestic dominant design drive train economic efforts Electric equipment equivalent firms established evolution example factories Ford's front-wheel drive Fuel GM's Harvard Business School Henry Ford important indus industrial competition industry's Innovation Rank Category integration inventory Japa Japan Japanese Japanese producers levels Lincoln Ford linkages machine market preferences mature Mitsubishi Colt Motor Nissan number of equivalent Oldsmobile GM operations organizational Packard percent plant Pontiac GM Producer(s product technology production systems rates Rear shift small car Station Wagon Steel Steering structure Studebaker technical tion tive Toyo Kogyo Toyota transilience Transmission U.S. and Japanese United V-8 Engine Wheel widget workers