Between Imitation and Innovation The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry

by Boyer, Robert; Charron, Elsie; Jürgens, Ulrich; Tolliday, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780198293682
• ISBN10: 0198293682
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Recent years have seen intense debates among management and academics on the rise of "lean production" and "Japanization." This book examines in detail the actual practice of transfer and adaptation of productive models into the auto industry. Case studies cover the Japanese transplant experience in North America, and the global experience of hybrid production systems in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xv	(2)
List of Figures	xvii	(1)
List of Tables	xviii
1. Introduction: Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry	1	(20)
Steven Tolliday
Robert Boyer
Elsie Charron
Ulrich Jurgens
Part I Theory and History	21	(76)
2. Hybridization and Models of Production: Geography, History, and Theory	23	(34)
Robert Boyer
3. The Diffusion and Transformation of Fordism: Britain and Japan Compared	57	(40)
Steven Tolliday
Part II Between Transfer and Hybridization	97	(134)
4. Making Toyota in America: Evidence from the Kentucky Transplant, 1986-1994	99	(29)
Kazuhiro Mishina
5. Stability and Change at NUMMI	128	(33)
Paul S. Adler
Barbara Goldoftas
David I. Levine
6. Mazda and Ford at Flat Rock: Transfer and Hybridization of the Japanese Model	161	(28)
Steve Babson
7. The Japanese Transplants in North America: Production Organization, Location, and Research and Development	189	(27)
Richard Florida
Davis Jenkins
Donald F. Smith
8. Hybridization of the Japanese Production System in North America, Newly Industrializing Economies, South-East Asia, and Europe: Contrasted Configurations	216	(15)
Tetsuo Abo
Part III Between Adaptation and Innovation	231	(150)
9. The NedCar Experience: The Confrontation of Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese Ideas about Car Manufacturing	233	(21)
Ben Dankbaar
10. FASA Renault: Innovation in Productive Flexibility and Job Security	254	(24)
Elsie Charron
11. The Transfer and Hybridization of New Models of Production in the Brazilian Automobile Industry	278	(17)
Afonso Fleury
Mario Sergio Salerno
12. Ford's Hermosillo Plant: The Trajectory of Development of a Hybrid Model	295	(24)
Jorge Carrillo
Yolanda Montiel
13. Implanting Change: The Role of `Indigenous Transplants' in Transforming the German Productive Model	319	(23)
Ulrich Jurgens
14. Volkswagen's Shanghai Plant: Between Chinese Tradition and Modernization Strategy	342	(19)
Thomas Kiefer
15. Saturn: A Different Kind of Company?	361	(13)
Frits K. Pil
Saul Rubinstein
16. Conclusion: Transplants, Hybridization, and Globalization: What Lessons for the Future?	374	(7)
Robert Boyer
Elsie Charron
Ulrich Jurgens
Steven Tolliday
Index	381