Lean and mean : the changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility / Bennett Harrison ; [foreword by Robert Kuttner].
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Guilford Press, c1997.Description: xvi, 363 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 1572302526
- 9781572302525:
- Lean & mean [Cover title]
- 338.644
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General Lending | Carlow Campus Library General Lending | 338.644 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 28255 |
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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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