Americanization and Its Limits

Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829555-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 807 g

This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and, strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined
indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often remarkably competitive ways.

Their findings will be of compelling interest not only to historians and social scientists concerned with the dynamics of post-war economic growth and industrial development, but also to those engaged in contemporary debates about the cross-national transfer and diffusion of productive models.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeitlin, Jonathan

Herrigel, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Zeitlin is Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; and Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Gary Herrigel is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, USA.