Transforming Buyer-Supplier Relations

Name: Transforming Buyer-Supplier Relations
Author: Jonathan Morris

Japanese-Style Industrial Practices in a Western Context

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | 1992

ISBN13: 9781349112029

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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 1992 9781349112029

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Samenvatting

This study analyses the shift in the relationship between large and smaller firms from confrontation and conflict, to cooperation and mutual assistance. It charts the pace of the adaption of Japanese style buyer-supplier relations in North American and Western European organizations.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781349112029

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

Hoofdrubriek:Algemeen management, Economie

Inhoudsopgave

Buyer-supplier relations and changes in industrial organization - some preliminary comments; economic change, vertical disintegration and buyer-supplier relations - some theoretical considerations; vertical disintegration and new forms of work organization - a review of empirical evidence; Nissan motor maufacturing UK - best practice under pressure; Lucas Girling - new practices, old constraints; Sony UK - supplier development and co-operative ethos; IBM UK - from control to collaboration?; beyond adversarialism - the advent of new practices?