Team working is of ten associated with sophisticated management control and inten-
sification of work; however, many authors suggest that an alternative type exists to which this …

Japanese industry is characterized by a unique set of industrial relations and management
styles. the ability to transfer these relations overseas has been the object of much scholarly …

Survey data show that post‐Tayloristic production concepts are not developing to the extent
that many researchers had originally expected. It also is inadequate to portray post …

One of the greatest difficulties Japanese multinationals have had is managing American
managers in their US subsidiaries. The reason for this is fundamental and profound …

While the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study of the automotive industry
(Womack et al., 1990) had the effect of stimulating discussions of Japanese work policy, it …

The literature on the product life cycle and on high throughput systems has been
preoccupied with studying an apparent lack of flexibility in capital-intensive production …

This paper presents an in‐depth analysis of processes of “team” working within a shopfloor
manufacturing setting. Drawing on ethnographic case studies, the paper examines how …

Since 1980, Japan's major automobile companies have set up 12 major automobile
assembly plants or transplants in North America—nine of these are in the US another three …

The thesis wants to be an analysis of the evolution of labor paradigms (and with them of the
implied production paradigms) to check whether the impacts of the so-called Industry 4.0 …

Tra i limiti principali della ricerca sulla cd. Quarta rivoluzione industriale1 si riscontra
sicuramente quello di identificarla unicamente come un nuovo paradigma2 tecnologico …