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Learning from Japan: The Yeast for Britain’s Manufacturing Regeneration?

In: Japan and the European Periphery

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  • Colin Haslam
  • Karel Williams
  • Andy Adcroft
  • Sukhdev Johal
  • John Williams

Abstract

Learning from Japan is the title of a Department of Trade and Industry initiative, launched in 1993, to improve the performance of the UK auto components industry. The working assumption is that the Japanese production paradigm is different and is founded upon new manufacturing techniques which have transcendent virtues. These can therefore be accessed by British manufacturing industry and will work in the UK economy just as they do in Japan. Japanese parent firms and their transplant affiliates are identified a priori as centres of high performance and objects of emulation for host economy employees, who are then encouraged to participate in a process of self-criticism and value-reformation. Indeed, representatives of British component companies have featured prominently in a series of public meetings to disseminate the ‘progress on steps they have taken in order to become world class, the benefits they have gained and their experience in implementing lean manufacturing principles’.2

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  • Colin Haslam & Karel Williams & Andy Adcroft & Sukhdev Johal & John Williams, 1996. "Learning from Japan: The Yeast for Britain’s Manufacturing Regeneration?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: James Darby (ed.), Japan and the European Periphery, chapter 5, pages 69-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25196-4_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25196-4_5
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