Manufacturing in Transition

by Delbridge,Rick; Delbridge,Rick

• ISBN13: 9780415182713
• ISBN10: 0415182719
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Manufacturing in Transitionmakes a genuinely interdisciplinary contribution to the debate over the UK's strategy for industrial renewal. It looks at the current state of the British manufacturing sector within the global economy and asks whether manufacturing matters in the twenty-first century. The book explores key issues such as: the chances of renewal; developments in the management and organization of operations and supply chains; and the differences made by Japanese methods. This is a timely assessment of the UK's industrial development and makes a major contribution to debates over the industrial strategy and the position of manufacturing within industrialized economies.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix	(1)
List of tables	x	(2)
Notes on contributors	xii	(3)
Preface	xv	(1)
List of abbreviations	xvi
Part I An appraisal of UK manufacturing	3	(78)
1 British manufacturing in perspective	3	(17)
Rick Delbridge
James Lowe
2 Deindustrialization may be bad for your wealth
Michael Kitson
Jonathan Michie
3 Are the British bad at flexible manufacturing?	38	(15)
Stephen Ackroyd
Stephen Procter
4 An analysis of the performance of Japanese, US and domestic manufacturing firms in the UK electronics/electrical sector	53	(28)
Max Munday
Michael J. Peel
Part II Manufacturing management in transition	81	(70)
5 The financial impact of `Japanese' manufacturing methods	81	(11)
Nick Oliver
Gillian Hunter
6 Leadership in the front line: the changing nature of supervision in UK manufacturing
Ivor Parry
David Tranfield
7 Mature firms in the UK mid-corporate sector: innovation strategies and employment prospects	112	(18)
Oswald Jones
Nelson Tang
8 Continuity and change in buyer-supplier relations: case evidence from manufacturing supply chains	130	(21)
Mike Bresnen
Carolyn Fowler
Part III Policy implications for future development	151	(99)
9 Opening Pandora's box: de facto industrial policy and the British defence industry	151	(18)
John Lovering
10 The political economy of manufacturing change in the regions	169	(30)
Andy Pike
John Tomaney
11 Engineering our future again: towards a long-term strategy for manufacturing and management in the United Kingdom	199	(25)
Ian Glover
Paul Tracey
Wendy Currie
12 UK manufacturing in the twenty-first century: learning factories and knowledge workers?	224	(18)
Rick Delbridge
Martin Kenney
James Lowe
13 Towards an agenda for manufacturing renewal	242	(8)
Rick Delbridge
James Lowe
Index	250