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Start-up factories : high performance management, job quality, and regional advantage

Title
Start-up factories : high performance management, job quality, and regional advantage / Peter B. Doeringer, Christine Evans-Klock, David G. Terkla.
Author
Doeringer, Peter B.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; Kalamazoo, Mich : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Evans-Klock, Christine.
  • Terkla, David G.
  • W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Description
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Presents the findings of a study of start-up factories in the United States by Japanese companies. Discusses the quality of jobs these factories produce and reveals their keys to success in achieving a strong competitive advantage. Gives the four inter-related strategies ( high performance management strategy, the economics of efficient wages, the quality of technology plants and regional economic development) that make for successful, high performance factories.
Subject
  • Factory management > Case studies
  • New business enterprises > Management > Case studies
  • Factory management
  • New business enterprises > Management
  • Management
  • Fabrieken
  • Nieuwe ondernemingen
  • Casestudies
  • enterprise creation
  • management strategy
  • high performance work system
  • location of industry
  • foreign enterprise
  • role of Japan
  • création d'entreprise
  • stratégie de gestion
  • système de travail hautement performant
  • localisation industrielle
  • entreprise étrangère
  • rôle du Japon
  • creación de empresa
  • estrategia de gestión
  • sistema de trabajo de gran rendimiento
  • ubicación de industrias
  • empresa extranjera
  • papel del Japón
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-250) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction -- Theories of high performance management -- The management strategies of start-up factories -- Hybrid systems of management practices -- High performance management and the quality of jobs -- High performance and regional advantage -- What attracts high performance factories? -- The bottom line -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 0195147472
  • 9780195147476
LCCN
2002005104
OCLC
  • ocm49553572
  • 49553572
  • SCSB-1336415
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library