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This text contains a series of articles written by leading international researchers on the subject of culture and production drawn from the CAPIRN project (the International Research Network on Culture and Production). The book examines the impact of industrial cultures on the development, implementation and international transfer of technology. The editors have chosen the machine tools sector as a basis for their discussion as this particular area has undergone dramatic changes since the early 1980s, changes which cannot adequately be explained away by traditional economic theories or international competition.

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Author:   Lauge Rasmussen ,  Felix Rauner
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.391kg
ISBN:  

9783540760290

ISBN 10:   3540760296
Pages:   229
Publication Date:   01 June 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section I: Scientific Concepts of Industrial Culture.- 1. Industrial Culture and Production - Towards a New Research Approach.- 2. Industrial Cultures - Theory and Methods of Cross-National Comparisons.- 3. The Cultural and Social Shaping of Factory Automation: Towards a New Research Agenda.- 4. Industrial Culture and Design Methodology.- 5. Industrial Culture and Software Production.- 6. Industrial Culture - An Action-Oriented View at Innovation and Production.- Section II: Empirical Investigations of Competitiveness of the Machine Tool Industry in Different Industrial Cultures.- 7. Research and Development Activities to Enhance Market Competitiveness of Products in Japanese Machine Tool Industry.- 8. Synthetic, Pragmatic, Analytic - A Comparison of the Japanese, American and German Approaches to Machine Tool Design.- 9. The Machine Tool Industry in Germany and the United States from the Perspective of Industrial Culture.- 10. Industrial Cultures and Machine Tool Industries: Competitiveness and Innovation Trajectories.- 11. Shop Floor Oriented Programming - Experience from a Joint Development Project with the German Machine Tool Industry.- 12. The Social Shaping of Machine Tool Design and Manufacture in the United Kingdom: Some Preliminary Findings.- Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness.

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