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Volvo—Ghent: A Third Way?

In: Teamwork in the Automobile Industry

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  • Rik Huys
  • Geert Hootegem

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Although Belgium is by far the largest automobile assembler per capita in the world, the five car assembly plants [1] located in Belgium enjoy scant attention within international literature on the organisation of work. Volvo’s major assembly plant of the 850-model in Ghent is probably the one most often referred to, because of the widespread interest in Volvo’s production concepts. In such references, the Ghent plant is described as a traditional Fordist plant. One of its features is that “the assembly line regime was never questioned at Volvo’s car factory in Ghent”, as Berggren (1992, p. 14) correctly states.

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  • Rik Huys & Geert Hootegem, 1999. "Volvo—Ghent: A Third Way?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jean-Pierre Durand & Paul Stewart & Juan José Castillo (ed.), Teamwork in the Automobile Industry, chapter 0, pages 308-324, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-14933-9_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14933-9_14
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