Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Large firms, small firms, and the governance of flexible specialization: The case of Baden Württemberg and socialized risk / Gary Herrigel
  • Country patterns in R & D organization: The United States and Japan / Eleanor Westney
  • Work organization in Japan and the United States / James R. Lincoln
  • The societal effect in the strategies of French and West German machine-tool manufacturers / Arndt Sorge and Marc Maurice
  • Rationalization and work in German industry / Horst Kern and Michael Schumann
  • National and company differences in organizing production work in the car industry / Ulrich Jürgens
  • New technology and the organization of work: British and Japanese factories / D. Hugh Whittaker.
  • (cont.) The shaping of software systems in manufacturing: The implementation of network technologies in British industries / Juliette Webster
  • A French-style sociotechnical learning process: The robotization of automobile body shops / Christophe Midler and Florence Charue
  • The diffusion of American organizing principles to Europe / Bruce Kogut and David Parkinson
  • The governance of Japanese and U.S. manufacturing affiliates in the U.K.: Some country-specific differences / John H. Dunning
  • Supplying the Toyota production system: Intercorporate organizational evolution and supplier subsystems / W. Mark Fruin and Toshihiro Nishiguchi
  • National specificities and the context of change: The coevolution of organization and technology / Giovanni Dosi and Bruce Kogut.