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11%OFFWilliam Lazonick - Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor - 9780674154162 - V9780674154162
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Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor

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Description for Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 7 line illustrations, 10 tables. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.

William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial leadership of cooperative relations between employers and shop-floor workers. Such relations permit employers to use new technologies to their maximum potential, which in turn transforms the high fixed costs inherent in these technologies into low unit costs and large market shares. Cooperative relations can also lead employers to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674154162
SKU
V9780674154162
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Ref
99-1

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