Manufacturing in Transition

ISBN-13: 9780415182713 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 288 str.

Rick Delbridge; James Lowe

Opis

Examining the UK's manufacturing sector, this book features contributions from specialists in business, management, economics, organizational behaviour and economic geography. Subjects covered include: the nature of change in the management of manufacturing organizations; the significance of manufacturing in the mature economies of the 21st century; the impact of Japanese companies and methods; the implications of de-industrialization; comparative analysis of British, Japanese and American electronics manufacturers; the regional political economy of manufacturing; the changing nature of buyer-supplier relations; and the prospects for manufacturing renewal in the UK. Detailed and topical, this book should be of interest to business students, researchers and public policy makers.

Spis treści

Part 1 An appraisal of UK manufacturing; Chapter 1 ::, Rick Delbridge, James Lowe; Chapter 2 Deindustrialization may be bad for your wealth, Michael Kitson, Jonathan Michie; Chapter 3 Are the British bad at flexible manufacturing?, Stephen Ackroyd, Stephen Procter; Chapter 4 An analysis of the performance of Japanese, US and domestic manufacturing firms in the UK electronics/electrical sector, Max Munday, Michael J. Peel; Part 2 Manufacturing management in transition; Chapter 5 The financial impact of ‘Japanese’ manufacturing methods, Nick Oliver, Gillian Hunter; Chapter 6 Leadership in the front line, Ivor Parry, David Tranfield; Chapter 7 Mature firms in the UK mid-corporate sector, Oswald Jones, Nelson Tang; Chapter 8 Continuity and change in buyer-supplier relations, Mike Bresnen, Carolyn Fowler; Part 3 Policy implications for future development; Chapter 9 Opening Pandora’s box, John Lovering; Chapter 10 The political economy of manufacturing change in the regions, Andy Pike, John Tomaney; Chapter 11 Engineering our future again, Ian Glover, Paul Tracey, Wendy Currie; Chapter 12 UK manufacturing in the twenty-first century, Rick Delbridge, Martin Kenney, James Lowe; Chapter 13 Towards an agenda for manufacturing renewal, Rick Delbridge, James Lowe;

O autorze

Edited by Delbridge, Rick; Lowe, James