The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota
Author(s): Takahiro Fujimoto (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: August 12, 1999
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195123204
- ISBN-13: 9780195123203
Book Description
What is the true source of a firm's long-term competitive advantage in manufacturing? Through original field studies, historical research, and statistical analyses, this book shows how Toyota Motor Corporation, one of the world's largest automobile companies, built distinctive capabilities in production, product development, and supplier management. Fujimoto asserts that it is Toyota's evolutionary learning capability that gives the company its advantage and demonstrates how this learning is put to use in daily work.
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is much more than a book about Toyota or a book about manufacturing....The book contains important contributions to the theory and practice of organizational learning that will be equally interesting to the practitioner and the academic."--Journal of Product Innovation Management
"...the book reveals the ways a very successful, if not the most successful, automobile manufacturing company operates on various levels....useful for those in business."--Choice
Review
"This is much more than a book about Toyota or a book about manufacturing....The book contains important contributions to the theory and practice of organizational learning that will be equally interesting to the practitioner and the academic."--Journal of Product Innovation Management
"...the book reveals the ways a very successful, if not the most successful, automobile manufacturing company operates on various levels....useful for those in business."--Choice
About the Author
Takahiro Fujimoto is at University of Tokyo.
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