Manufacturing culture
the institutional geography of industrial practice
- ISBN: 9780198233824
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. None
- Colección: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 201
- Idiomas: Inglés
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. INDICE: 1. Institutions, Agency, and Industrial Practices.2. Capital, Technology, and Economic Performance.3. Proximity, Organization, and Culture.4. Regional Cultures of Production.5. Crisis in Machinery Building: The Roots of Germany's Economic Malaise?.6. Tacit Knowledge in Geographical Context.7. Geography, Learning, and Convergence.
