The Toyota Spirit

Gianfranco Dioguardi ()
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Gianfranco Dioguardi: Politecnico Università di Bari

Chapter Chapter 6 in Network Enterprises, 2010, pp 61-70 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The underlying philosophy characterizing the Toyota spirit can indeed be described as “thinking backward,” in the sense of “establishing, in parallel with the development of the real production flow (which proceeds from upstream to downstream), an inverse flow of information which proceeds from downstream to upstream, since each downstream location sends an instruction to the next higher location […] The innovation, as can be seen, is purely organizational and conceptual: there is no intervention of any technological aspect.”1

Keywords: Supply Chain; Organizational Innovation; Network Enterprise; Operative Corporate Environment; Organizational Coordination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1333-3_6

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