The Effectiveness of Tradition: Peugeot’s Sochaux Factory

Jean-Pierre Durand and Nicolas Hatzfeld

Chapter Chapter 7 in Teamwork in the Automobile Industry, 1999, pp 173-201 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Automobiles Peugeot considers the Sochaux site to be its birthplace. The site had been acquired in 1912, and activities there gradually expanded in tandem with the development of a production system based on principles of rational organisation that were adopted during the First World War. Sochaux remained the sole assembly factory of Automobile Peugeot until 1971, when a new assembly plant was opened at Mulhouse. Poissy, purchased in 1978, was later to become the company’s third assembly plant. For several decades, then, Peugeot-Sochaux was home to all the major activities involved in automobile production: foundry, forging, mechanical components, stamping, painting and final assembly.

Keywords: Assembly Line; Human Resource Management; Automobile Industry; Employment Relationship; Final Assembly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14933-9_8

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