Going Local: The Hybridization Process as Situated Learning

Hope Finney Botti

Chapter 11 in The Diffusion and Consumption of Business Knowledge, 1998, pp 250-277 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract You start out by making a photocopy of the Japanese way of producing and organizing. After that it’s a matter of adapting that original photocopy to local reality. It’s like I build a plant which is identical to one which already exists in some other part of the world, because that’s generally how I think a plant should be, after which I put in local managers and they see, they know what elements of the model it’s profitable to use locally and which elements have to be adapted or just dropped. (Italian Plant Manager)

Keywords: Tacit Knowledge; Industrial Relation; Night Shift; Shop Floor; Plant Manager (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25899-4_12

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