Agile against Lean : an inquiry into the production system of Hyundai Motor /: an inquiry into the production system of Hyundai Motor. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hyung Je Jo, Jun Ho Jeong, Chulsik Kim.
• Other Names: Jo, Hyung Je; Jeong, Jun-Ho; Kim, Chulsik
• Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Conceptual Blocks and Overview -- 1 Introduction-Building Conceptual Blocks for an Understanding of Catching Up, Chaebols, and Production Systems -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Conceptual Blocks of Catching Up, Chaebols, and Production Systems -- 1.2.1 The Catch-Up of the Korean Economy -- 1.2.1.1 The Catch-Up Mechanism of the Korean Economy -- 1.2.1.2 Major Empirical Studies on the Korean Economy's Catch-Up Process -- 1.2.2 Catching Up and Forms of Business Organization 1.2.2.1 The World of Marshallian SMEs -- 1.2.2.2 Chandlerian and Neo-Schumpeterian Evolutionary Big Firms -- 1.2.2.3 Hybrid Inter-Firm Relationships and Post-Chandlerian Business World -- 1.2.2.4 Chaebol Business Groups -- 1.2.3 Automotive Production Systems -- 1.2.3.1 Prior Literature on Automobile Production Systems -- 1.2.3.2 Concepts and Types of Automobile Production Systems -- 1.2.3.3 Operationalization of Automotive Production Systems -- 1.3 Conceptualizing Hyundai Motor's Agile Production System as Authoritarian Experimentalism -- 1.3.1 Conceptual Map of This Book 1.3.2 Hyundai Motor's Agile Production System: An Authoritarian Experimentalism -- 1.3.2.1 Agile Production Systems -- 1.3.2.2 Authoritarian Experimentalism -- 1.3.2.3 Hyundai Motor's Agile Production System as an Authoritarian Experimentalism -- References -- 2 An Overview of Hyundai Motor's Production System -- 2.1 Hyundai Motor's Production System Before the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis -- 2.2 A Macro-institutional Overview of Hyundai Motor's Production System After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis -- 2.2.1 The 'Middle-Ranked Carmaker's Trap' 2.2.2 Entrepreneurial Management Exploits 'Windows of Opportunity' -- 2.2.3 Corporate Governance Structure and the Chaebol System -- 2.2.4 Product Strategy and Profitability-The Pursuit of Flexible Scale-Diversity -- 2.3 A Micro Overview of Hyundai Motor's Production System After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis -- 2.3.1 Skill-Building in Engineers: Learning by Improvisation -- 2.3.2 Work Organization and Shop-Floor Workers: Flexible Automation, Skill-Saving, and Segmented Labor -- 2.3.3 Inter-Firm Relationships: Extended Quasi-Vertical Integration 2.3.4 Overseas Transplant Strategy: The Geographic Transfer of Hyundai Motor's Production System -- References -- Part II Empirical Anatomy -- 3 Skill Formation in Engineers-Learning by Improvisation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Crisis in the Business Environment and Construction of the Pilot Center -- 3.3 New Car Development and Intensive Problem-Solving Capacity -- 3.3.1 The Collective Skills of Engineers -- 3.3.2 The New Car Development Process and Intensive Problem-Solving -- 3.3.3 Comparison with Toyota -- 3.4 The Vertical Restructuring of Production Engineering
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (267 pages)
• Subjects: 629.2095195; Asia--Economic conditions; Automobile industry and trade -- Korea (South) -- History; Production management -- Korea (South) -- History; Manufacturing processes -- Korea (South) -- History; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Engineering; Business & Economics -- Management Science; Production engineering; Business & management; Industrial engineering; Production engineering; Business; Management science; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Economics; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789819920426
• Related ISBNs: 9789819920419
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