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Industrial Cultures and Production

Understanding Competitiveness

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Editors:
  1. Lauge Rasmussen

    1. Institute of Technology & Social Sciences, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

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  2. Felix Rauner

    1. Institute of Technology and Education, University of Bremen, Germany

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Scientific Concepts of Industrial Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Industrial Culture and Production - Towards a New Research Approach

      • Felix Rauner, Klaus Ruth
      Pages 3-17

    3. Industrial Cultures - Theory and Methods of Cross-National Comparisons

      • Lauge Rasmussen
      Pages 18-39

    4. The Cultural and Social Shaping of Factory Automation: Towards a New Research Agenda

      • J. Martin Corbett
      Pages 40-57

    5. Industrial Culture and Design Methodology

      • Thomas Binder, Klaus T. Nielsen
      Pages 58-69

    6. Industrial Culture and Software Production

      • Jürgen Friedrich
      Pages 70-83

    7. Industrial Culture - An Action-Oriented View at Innovation and Production

      • Klaus Ruth
      Pages 84-103

  3. Empirical Investigations of Competitiveness of the Machine Tool Industry in Different Industrial Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Research and Development Activities to Enhance Market Competitiveness of Products in Japanese Machine Tool Industry

      • Yoshimi Ito
      Pages 107-133

    3. Synthetic, Pragmatic, Analytic - A Comparison of the Japanese, American and German Approaches to Machine Tool Design

      • Eckehard Fozzy Moritz
      Pages 134-158

    4. The Machine Tool Industry in Germany and the United States from the Perspective of Industrial Culture

      • Gabrielle Laske
      Pages 159-175

    5. Industrial Cultures and Machine Tool Industries: Competitiveness and Innovation Trajectories

      • Klaus Ruth
      Pages 176-198

    6. Shop Floor Oriented Programming - Experience from a Joint Development Project with the German Machine Tool Industry

      • Peter Brödner
      Pages 199-210

    7. The Social Shaping of Machine Tool Design and Manufacture in the United Kingdom: Some Preliminary Findings

      • J. Martin Corbett
      Pages 211-221

  4. Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness

    1. Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness

      • Lauge Rasmussen, Felix Rauner
      Pages 222-229
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About this book

This book contains a selection of articles on the subject of 'Culture and Production'. They are results of international conferences held in Tokyo, Washington and Bremen between 1991 and 1994. The International Research Network on Culture and Production (CAPIRN) carried out a 5-year joint research project examining the impact of different industrial cultures on the development and implementation, and above all on the international transfer of technology. The machine tools sector was selected for this international comparative study, because over the last 15 years this global market has undergone dramatic changes that cannot be adequately explained by traditional economic theories of international competition. The 'industrial culture' research concept permits an analysis and understanding of hitherto unrecognised interrelationships between the dimensions of different industrial cultures and the process of technological innovation in international competition. The special challenge faced by CAPIRN was to develop the theoretical concept of industrial culture further and to apply it within a large-scale international study. A considerable amount of work in this field has been published by CAPIRN members since 1990. This book is the first compilation of research findings in the field of industrial culture. We wish to express our thanks to the national research councils in the participant countries, the FORCE and FAST programmes of the European Union, the Japanese Ministry for Industry, MITI, and the Hans Bockler Foundation, to mention only some of the many bodies that have provided support.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Technology & Social Sciences, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

    Lauge Rasmussen

  • Institute of Technology and Education, University of Bremen, Germany

    Felix Rauner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Industrial Cultures and Production

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding Competitiveness

  • Editors: Lauge Rasmussen, Felix Rauner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1492-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76029-0Published: 01 June 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-1492-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 229

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computer System Implementation

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