Manufacturing Possibilities: Creative Action and Industrial Recomposition in the United States, Germany, and Japan

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Figures......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, and Industrial Recomposition......Page 14
PART I: Introduction: Industrial Recomposition: The Steel Industry in Post-World War II United States, Germany, and Japan......Page 40
1. American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Recomposing the Steel Industry in Japan and Germany After World War II......Page 44
2. Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the United States (1950–74)......Page 97
3. Left for Dead? The Recomposition of the Steel Industries in Germany, Japan, and the United States Since 1974......Page 113
PART II: Introduction: Contemporary Recomposition in the United States and Germany: Coping with Vertical Disintegration on a Global Scale......Page 152
4. Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer–Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains......Page 154
5. Interfirm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and Its Globalization......Page 173
6. Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the United States Compared......Page 200
7. Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation, and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany......Page 219
Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power, and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 249
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