Emergent Dualism in the UK Automotive Industry: Should we be Concerned?

Are car assembly plants which have adopted 'lean production' trading with 'lean' parts suppliers? Or are they using suppliers as buffers and as sources of low cost labour? This paper examines these questions empirically by using official statistics in the UK, US, Germany and J...

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Main Author: Sako, Mari
Language:en_US
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1463