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This book examines how European and Japanese industries adapted American technology and management methods after World War II. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions. They also discuss how these local adaptations created new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often remarkably competitive ways.
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.
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