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by: Herrigel, Gary

ISBN: 9780199665983 | 0199665982

Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. Using detailed historical and interview based contemporary analysis, the book looks at how national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets.

Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, and Industrial Recomposition
Part I: Industrial Recomposition: The Steel Industry in Post-World War II United States, Germany, and Japan
1. American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Restructuring the steel industry in Japan and Germany after World War II
2. Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the US 1950-1974
3. Left for Dead? Recombinant Steel Industries in Germany, Japan, and the US since 1974
... MOREPart II: Contemporary Recomposition in the US and Germany: Coping with Vertical Disintegration on a Global Scale
4. Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer-Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains
5. Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and its Globalization
6. Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the US Compared
7. Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation, and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany
Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power, and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities

Gary Herrigel is a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from MIT in the Program of Science, Technology, and Society and the Political Science Department. He has published widely on topics related to industrial development, regional industrial policy, corporate governance, comparative political economy, social theory, and business and economic history in Germany, the United States, and Japan. In particular he is the author of Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge University Press, 1996) which analyzed regional differentiation and alternative governance forms in German industrialization. Herrigel also co-edited with Jonathan Zeitlin, Americanization and its Limits : Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan (Oxford University Press, 2000).