Volvo—Ghent: A Third Way?

Rik Huys and Geert Hootegem

Chapter Chapter 13 in Teamwork in the Automobile Industry, 1999, pp 308-324 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Although Belgium is by far the largest automobile assembler per capita in the world, the five car assembly plants [1] located in Belgium enjoy scant attention within international literature on the organisation of work. Volvo’s major assembly plant of the 850-model in Ghent is probably the one most often referred to, because of the widespread interest in Volvo’s production concepts. In such references, the Ghent plant is described as a traditional Fordist plant. One of its features is that “the assembly line regime was never questioned at Volvo’s car factory in Ghent”, as Berggren (1992, p. 14) correctly states.

Keywords: Assembly Line; Production Worker; Work Organisation; Final Assembly; Automate Guide Vehicle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14933-9_14

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