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Lean and mean : the changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility / Bennett Harrison ; [foreword by Robert Kuttner].

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Guilford Press, c1997.Description: xvi, 363 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1572302526
  • 9781572302525:
Other title:
  • Lean & mean [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.644
Contents:
Big firms, small firms, network firms. -- The myth of small firms as job generators -- Are small firms the technology leaders? -- The evolution (and devolution?) of the Italian industrial districts -- Is Silicon Valley an industrial district? "Flexibility" and the emergence of large firm-led production networks -- Large firm-centered networked production systems in Japan and Europe -- Interfirm production networks in the United States -- The dark side of flexible production. Economic development policy in a world of lean and mean production -- Postscript : reassessing Lean and mean on the eve of the new millenium.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 338.644 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 28255

CW085

CW918

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-347) and index.

Big firms, small firms, network firms. -- The myth of small firms as job generators -- Are small firms the technology leaders? -- The evolution (and devolution?) of the Italian industrial districts -- Is Silicon Valley an industrial district? "Flexibility" and the emergence of large firm-led production networks -- Large firm-centered networked production systems in Japan and Europe -- Interfirm production networks in the United States -- The dark side of flexible production. Economic development policy in a world of lean and mean production -- Postscript : reassessing Lean and mean on the eve of the new millenium.

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