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  • Learning Factories

    The Nordic Model of Manufacturing

    by Elias G. Carayannis, Aris Kaloudis, Geir Ringen, Halvor Holtskog ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Democracy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for Growth
    This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive industry – one of the most globalized industries in the world – as the empirical foundation of the book, it examines the strengths, tensions, and challenges the Norwegian work organization style meets in this ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer

    by Jeffrey Liker ...
    How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the ... Read more

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  • The Reckoning

    by David Halberstam ...
    This New York Times –bestselling history is "an immense, and immensely readable, saga of the American and Japanese auto industries" ( Boston Globe ).After generations of creating high-quality automotive products, American industrialists began losing ground to the Japanese auto industry in the decades after World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam, with his signature p... ... Read more

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  • The Toyota Way: Management Principles and Fieldbook (EBOOK)

    by Jeffrey Liker ...
    Transform your company the Toyota way!Two essential guides streamlined into a SINGLE EBOOK PACKAGEToyota. The name says it all: Innovation. Efficiency. Quality. Excellence.The Toyota Way—Management Principles and Fieldbook explains how the legendary automaker consistently achieves the highest levels of manufacturing and business success—and how you can achieve similar results with your own ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Faster, Higher, Farther

    How One of the World's Largest Automakers Committed a Massive and Stunning Fraud

    by Jack Ewing ...
    “A rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic.” —Bethany McLean, New York Times Book ReviewFaster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals those at Enron and Lehman Brothers—one that will cost Volkswagen more than ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Toyota Way to Success EBOOK BUNDLE

    by David Meier, James K. Franz, Jeffrey K. Liker ...
    Four E-Books in OneThe Toyota WayTOYOTA. The name signifies greatness—world-class cars and game-changing business thinking In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The international bestsellerThe Toyota Way ... Read more

    $84.29 USD

  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

    $29.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Organizational Innovation by Integrating Simplification

    Learning from Buurtzorg Nederland

    by Sharda S. Nandram ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland. The case itself, forming the building block of the theory, has received tremendous interest in the Netherlands and abroad. This is the first international book on Buurtzorg Nederland and the first one departing from a management multidisciplinary perspective. The book ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Explaining Productivity Differences

    Comparative Analysis of Automotive Plants in Japan, the United States, Thailand and China

    by Hiromichi Shibata ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials. To do so, it analyzes productivity at a Japanese car component plant and its three offshoot plants located in the United States, Thailand, and China and how productivity evolved ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Inter-Organizational Relationships

    Towards a Dynamic Model for Understanding Business Network Performance

    by Cecilia Rossignoli, Francesca Ricciardi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the premise that organizations are significantly influenced by their inter-organizational relationships; moreover, these relationships may generate important externalities, both positive and negative, impacting the environment at several levels. The advent of the Internet era, on the other hand, has resulted in disruptive changes in traditional inter-organizational networks, and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement

    by David Hollister, Ray Tadgerson, David Closs, G. Tomas M. Hult ...
    The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing cityWhen car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person—the city’s newly elected mayor—stood up and said “no.” Initially, it was the cry of a man in the wilderness. Not once in its century-long history had GM reversed a decision to close a plant. But Mayor David ... Read more

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