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Americanization and its Limits
Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan
Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin and Gary Herrigel
430 pages
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black and white figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-829555-6
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Hardback
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23 March 2000
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- Addresses central problems of cross-national diffusion and transfer of productive models
- Particularly relevant for contemporary debates regarding globablization, Americanization, and Japanization in the industrial economy
- Based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies
- Analyses cover the UK, France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and Germany
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.Readership: Academics and students of international business and sociology; economic history; politics; European, Japanese, and American studies.
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Edited by Jonathan Zeitlin, Professor of History, Sociology, and Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and Gary Herrigel, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, USA
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"A major addition to [the] literature ... this book is a major enrichment of our understanding of 'Americanization', combining a rich array of new research with a rigorous attention to problems of conceptualization." - The Historical Journal "This book is essential reading for anyone interested in post-war international economic history and the development of an internationalized business culture. It also provides a salutary reminder about the limited prospects of a national business model being transferred wholesale even in the era of the new economy and revived American dominance." - English Historical Review "This book will be of great value to economic as well as business historians, particularly
those with an interest in the development of globalization ... the project is truly international in its scholarly dimensions." - English Historical Review "The detailed essays provide some fascinating examples of transatlantic interaction ... this is an important book bringing together for the first time a great deal of useful information." - History "This book is the best by far of the recent spate of studies of Americanization, and it will be invaluable to scholars and students in a variety of fields." - Technology and Culture
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Jonathan Zeitlin: Chapter 1: Introduction: Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan
Part I: Exporting the American Model?
Jacqueline McGlade: Chapter 2: Americanization: Ideology or Process? The Case of the US Technical Assistance and Productivity Program
Steven Tolliday: Chapter 3: Transplanting the American Model? US Automobile Companies and the Transfer of Technology and Management to Europe after the Second World War
Part II: Reworking US Technology and Management: National, Sectoral, and Firm-Level Variations
A: Britain and Sweden
Jonathan Zeitlin: Chapter 4: Americanizing British Engineering? Strategic Debate, Selective Adaptation, and Hybrid Innovation in Post-War Reconstruction
Kenneth Lipartito: Chapter 5: Failure to Communicate: British Telecommunications and the American Lesson
Henrik Glimstedt: Chapter 6: Creative Cross-Fertilization and Uneven Americanization of Swedish Industry: Sources of Innovation in Post-War Motor Vehicles and Electrical Manufacturing
B: France and Italy
Matthias Kipping: Chapter 7: A Slow and Difficult Process: The Americanization of the French Steel Producing and Using Industries after World War II
Ruggero Ranieri: Chapter 8: Remodelling the Italian Steel Industry: Americanization, Modernization, and Mass Production
Duccio Bigazzi: Chapter 9: Mass Production or 'Organized Craftsmanship'? The Post-War Italian Automobile Industry
C: Germany and Japan
Paul Erker: Chapter 10: The Long Shadow of Americanization: The German Rubber Industry and the Radial Tire Revolution
Kazuo Wada and Takao Shiba: Chapter 11: The Evolution of the 'Japanese Production System': Indigenous Influences and American Impact
Gary Herrigel: Chapter 12: American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Reconfiguring the Japanese and German Steel Industries after World War II
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