Spurious Correlation between Economies and Scale

It is common knowledge that expansion in the scale of production leads to economies of scale. A correlation between economies and scale does exist. However, the reality on the shop floor, in Japanese, “gemba,” in actual manufacturing is that productivity increases and that there is expansion of prod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koji YAMADA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Global Business Research Center 2014-08-01
Series:Annals of Business Administrative Science
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/abas/13/4/13_199/_pdf/-char/en