The Myth of Japanese Efficiency

Dan Coffey

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Abstract: Combining case studies with accessible but rigorous production models and historical background, this provocative book challenges accepted views on Japanese production methods in the world car industry. The book argues that the ‘lean and flexible’ production model popularly associated with Toyota MC is a myth, but one which sheds light on cultural responses to the attendant stresses of globalization. To illustrate this, Dan Coffey provides individual studies of process flexibility, labour productivity and the re-organization of work in the global car industry.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845420413
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