Start-Up Factories: High-Performance Management, Job Quality, and Regional Advantage

by Peter B. Doeringer

The authors chart the experience of start-up factories in adopting high performance management practices and provide insights into how US manufacturing can improve labor productivity and job quality in the coming years. Based on an extensive study of 48 new branch plants-that began operating between 1978 and 1990, this book explains how best practice manufacturing companies are raising productivity and lowering unit costs by introducing innovative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195147472
• ISBN13: 9780195147476
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"