Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan

ISBN-13: 9780199269044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 432 str.

Jonathan Zeitlin; Gary Herrigel

Opis

This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and, strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often remarkably competitive ways.

Recenzje

One hopes that this volume will be read by comparative political economists and management scholars as well [as]... political scientists [and] historians... The view that innovation can stem entirely from the hybridization of codified techniques with local circumstances is only one of its more striking theoretical insights. This is a most engaging and impressive set of essays.

O autorze

Jonanthan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a co-director of the European Union Center. He has been a consultant on industrial and labour market policy for the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the Greater London Council. Gary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA.