The General Drive to Compress Time and Reduce Cost

Mats Larsson

Chapter 12 in The Limits of Business Development and Economic Growth, 2004, pp 125-142 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Why worry about computerization? Companies have invested in increasingly efficient production technology for a long time and computers have been in existence for more than fifty years, and we have never experienced anything but growth and new opportunities from this development. Even if the previous chapters have provided examples of the current development, we still do not have a complete picture of why this development is different from previous attempts at computerization. I will try to show, sometimes in painstaking detail, what the significant differences are and why we now need to fear recession from a development that has previously contributed to growth.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Standard System; Fashion Industry; Compress Time; Picking Order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230511439_13

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