1st Edition

Manufacturing in Transition

Edited By Rick Delbridge, James Lowe Copyright 1998
288 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The future of British manufacturing is of immense importance and topicality. As we slide towards a service sector economy based on finance and tourism, it is worth reflecting on whether this is the most appropriate or inevitable scenario. Manufacturing in Transition makes a genuinely interdisciplinary contribution to the debate over the UK's strategy for industrial renewal. Aimed primarily at... Read more
Part 1 An appraisal of UK manufacturing; Chapter 1 ::, Rick Delbridge, James Lowe; Chapter 2 Deindustrialization may be bad for your wealth, Michael Kitson, Jonathan Michie; Chapter 3 Are the British bad at flexible manufacturing?, Stephen Ackroyd, Stephen Procter; Chapter 4 An analysis of the performance of Japanese, US and domestic manufacturing firms in the UK electronics/electrical sector, Max Munday, Michael J. Peel; Part 2 Manufacturing management in transition; Chapter 5 The financial impact of ‘Japanese’ manufacturing methods, Nick Oliver, Gillian Hunter; Chapter 6 Leadership in the front line, Ivor Parry, David Tranfield; Chapter 7 Mature firms in the UK mid-corporate sector, Oswald Jones, Nelson Tang; Chapter 8 Continuity and change in buyer-supplier relations, Mike Bresnen, Carolyn Fowler; Part 3 Policy implications for future development; Chapter 9 Opening Pandora’s box, John Lovering; Chapter 10 The political economy of manufacturing change in the regions, Andy Pike, John Tomaney; Chapter 11 Engineering our future again, Ian Glover, Paul Tracey, Wendy Currie; Chapter 12 UK manufacturing in the twenty-first century, Rick Delbridge, Martin Kenney, James Lowe; Chapter 13 Towards an agenda for manufacturing renewal, Rick Delbridge, James Lowe;

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Edited by Delbridge, Rick; Lowe, James