Innovation in Production

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Introduction: Perspectives on German Industry and Its Competitiveness

   • Gunter Lay, Philip Shapira

   Pages 1-17

3. The Diffusion of New Production Concepts in Germany

   • Steffen Kinkel, Jürgen Wengel

   Pages 19-30

4. Performance Impacts of New Production Concepts

   • Gunter Lay, Carsten Dreher, Steffen Kinkel

   Pages 31-42

5. Interaction of Process and Product Innovation

   • Gunter Lay

   Pages 43-52

6. New Production Concepts and Employment

   • Gunter Lay

   Pages 53-64

7. Worker Participation and Process Innovations

   • Jürgen Wengel, Werner Wallmeier

   Pages 65-78

8. Flexibility at Work

   • Gunter Lay, Claudia Mies

   Pages 79-90

9. Innovation versus Emigration - New Production Concepts and Transborder Relocation

   • Steffen Kinkel

   Pages 91-104

10. New Production Concepts and Service Orientation: The Case of Teleservice

    • Carsten Dreher, Gunter Lay, Thomas Michler

    Pages 105-112

11. Environmental Practices in Germany’s Investment Goods Sector

    • Jürgen Fleig

    Pages 113-124

12. Adoption of New Production Concepts in East Germany

    • Gunter Lay

    Pages 125-136

13. Promotion of CIM in the New Länder

    • Jürgen Wengel

    Pages 137-157

14. Implications for Modernization Strategies and Studies

    • Gunter Lay, Carsten Dreher, Philip Shapira

    Pages 159-170

15. Back Matter

    Pages 171-189

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How industrial companies in Germany's critically important investment goods sector are deploying new technological and organizational production concepts to adapt to competitiveness challenges, new market requirements, environmental demands, and policy pressures is examined in this book. It draws on the Fraunhofer ISI's unique nationwide survey of technology use and production in Germany. East German as well as West German data is analyzed. Readers will gain fresh insights about the diffusion of new production concepts, the interaction of process and product innovations, and subsequent effects on productivity, employment, work flexibility, and the business performance of German industry. Implications for business strategy, public policy, and ongoing research into technology diffusion are considered.

• Diffusion
• Production Structures
• Production Technology
• Produktionsstrukturen
• Produktionstechnik
• Produktionstechnologie
• innovation
• innovations
• inventory
• manufacturing
• production engineering

• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany

  Gunter Lay, Philip Shapira, Jürgen Wengel

• School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  Philip Shapira

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