| Description |
xiv, 459 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The Uddevalla experience in perspective / Ake Sandberg -- The creation of a new production system at the Volvo automobile assembly plant in Uddevalla, Sweden / Kajsa Ellegard -- Production system design - a brief summary of some Swedish design efforts / Tomas Engstrom and Lars Medbo -- The Uddevalla plant: Why did it succeed with a holistic approach and why did it come to an end? / Lennart Nilsson -- Volvo Kalmar - twice a pioneer / Thomas Sandberg -- The fate of the branch plants - performance versus power / Christian Berggren -- Assembly skills, process engineering and engineering design / Henrik Blomgren and Bo Karlson -- Building for new production concepts / Colin Clipson, Jesper Steen, Anders Tornqvist and Peter Ullmark -- Designed for learning: A tale of two auto plants / Paul S. Adler and Robert E. Cole -- Limits to innovation in work organization? / Bob Hancke and Saul Rubinstein -- Group work and the reception of Uddevalla in German car industry / Ulrich Jurgens |
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Lean production. The Micro-Macro dimension, employment and the welfare state / Peter Auer |
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Volvo truck and bus in the UK: The clash of the Titans / Paul Thompson and Terry Wallace -- Volvo-Gent: A Japanese transplant in Belgium or beyond? / Rik Huys and Geert Van Hootegem -- First DAF, then Volvo and now Mitsubishi / Ben Dankbaar -- Missing the road: Working life at Volvo Nova Scotia / L. Anders Sandberg -- Volvo in Malaysia / Hing Ai Yun -- The origins of team work at Renault / Michel Freyssenet -- Fait accompli? A Machiavellian interpretation of the Renault-Volvo merger / Karel Williams, Colin Haslam and Sukhdev Johal -- Japanese work policy: Opportunity, challenge or threat? / Norbert Altmann -- Lean production in the automobile industry: Second thoughts / Dan Jonsson -- Humanization of the production system and work at Toyota Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Kyushu / Koichi Shimizu -- Recent developments at Toyota Motor Co. / Terje Gronning -- Social preconditions for lean management and its further development / Paul Lillrank |
| Analysis |
Motor vehicles Production |
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Sweden |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Volvo, Aktiebolaget -- Management -- Case studies.
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Automobile factories -- Sweden -- Uddevalla -- Management -- Case studies.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Sweden -- Uddevalla -- Management -- Case studies.
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| Author |
Sandberg, Åke, 1944-
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| LC no. |
95075118 |
| ISBN |
1859721060 |
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