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Manufacturing Possibilities - Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan (Hardcover)
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Manufacturing Possibilities - Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan (Hardcover)
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Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the
steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S.,
and Japan since World War II. As national industrial actors in each
sector try to compete in global markets, the book argues that they
recompose firm and industry boundaries, stakeholder identities and
interests and governance mechanisms at all levels of their
political economies. Micro level study of industrial transformation
in this way provides a significant window on macro level processes
of political economic change in the three societies.
Theoretically, the book marks a departure from both neoliberal
economic and historical institutionalist perspectives on change in
advanced political economies. It characterizes industrial change as
a creative, bottom up process driven by reflective social actors.
This alternative view consists of two distinctive claims. The first
is that action is social, reflective, and ultimately creative. When
their interactive habits are disrupted, industrial actors seek to
repair their relations by reconceiving them. Such imaginative
interaction redefines interest and causes unforeseen possibilities
for action to emerge, enabling actors to trump existing rules and
constraints. Second, industrial change driven by creative action is
recompositional. In the social process of reflection, actors
rearrange, modify, reconceive, and reposition inherited
organizational forms and governance mechanisms as they experiment
with solutions to the challenges that they face. Continuity in
relations is interwoven with continuous reform and change. Most
remarkably, creativity in the recomposition process makes the
introduction of entirely new practices and relations possible.
Ultimately, the message of Manufacturing Possibilities is that
social study of change in advanced political economies should
devote itself to the discovery of possibility. Preoccupation with
constraint and failure to appreciate the capaciousness of
reflective social action has led much of contemporary debate to
misrecognize the dynamics of change. As a result, discussion of the
range of adjustment possibilities in advanced political economies
has been unnecessarily limited.
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