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Is Lean Production the Solution?

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  • Christos Papahristodoulou

    (Uppsala University, Sweden)

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The Japanese system of lean production is the most efficient way for manufacturing cars argue Womack et al. in their MIT study The Machine that Changed the World (1990). They strongly recom- mend Western companies to learn and adapt to it, if they want to survive in the 1990s. This paper shows that lean production per se is not sufficient to explain the Japanese superiority unless favourable macroeconomic and microeconomic conditions prevail (precisely as for mass production). It also points to some methodological and analytical deficits in the MIT study.

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  • Christos Papahristodoulou, 1994. "Is Lean Production the Solution?," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 15(3), pages 457-476, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:15:y:1994:i:3:p:457-476
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X94153006
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