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Author Gertler, Meric S., author.

Title Manufacturing culture : the institutional geography of industrial practice / Meric S. Gertler
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 201 pages)
Series Oxford geographical and environmental studies
Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
Contents Institutions, agency, and industrial practices -- Capital, technology, and economic performance -- Proximity, organization, and culture -- Regional cultures of production -- Crisis in machinery building : the roots of Germany's economic malaise? -- Tacit knowledge in geographical context -- Geography, learning, and convergence
Summary Why are firms in some regions or nations so successful at adopting particular new production technologies and work practices, while those in other places are not? What role do culturally defined characteristics, traits, and attitudes play in determining the degree of success in this process? Moreover, to what extent can such successful practices be replicated or 'manufactured' in other less fortunate locations? These questions constitute the central issues of concern for this. book. - ;Recent years have seen a lively debate over the role of tacit knowledge and interactive learning in privilegi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-193) and index
Notes English
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Subject Industrial organization -- Social aspects
Industrial organization -- Regional disparities
Organizational behavior -- Social aspects
Organizational behavior -- Regional disparities
Industries -- Technological innovations
Economic geography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Negotiating.
Economic geography
Industrial organization -- Regional disparities
Industrial organization -- Social aspects
Industries -- Technological innovations
Organizational behavior -- Social aspects
Industriƫle bedrijven.
Technische vernieuwing.
Organisatiegedrag.
Regionale verschillen.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004042545
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