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Country Competitiveness - Technology and the Organizing of Work (Hardcover, New)
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Country Competitiveness - Technology and the Organizing of Work (Hardcover, New)
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With the expansion of global competition through international
trade agreements and heightened rivalry between firms in the
domestic market, it is easy to understand why a firm would seek to
compete by lowering the wages paid to labor. Yet, this strategy is
troubled not only by the efforts of other firms pursuing cheaper
labor costs, but also by the failure to adopt better ways of
organizing work. New products are copied within a short time after
introduction. What is difficult to imitate is the organizing of
work--as applied to the factory floor, to the corporation, and to
relations among firms and other institutions. This book explores
detailed case studies of individual firms, country comparisons, and
historical patterns of diffusion. The authors emphasize that the
speed by which a firm adopts and integrates new technologies and
ways of organizing must be understood in the context of the
strength of the regional and national network of firms and
institutions. The chapters in the book are written by
world-renowned scholars--including Giovanni Dosi, Horst Kern,
Michael Schumann, and Eleanor D. Westner--and represent major
schools of thought from Germany, France, the U.S., Japan, and the
United Kingdom. The studies are international in nature and include
in-depth analyses of software systems, automobile manufacturing
(e.g. the Toyota Production System), and the machine tool industry.
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