Americanization and its limits
Subtitle: reworking US technology and management in postwar Europe and Japan
By: Jonathan Zeitlin.
Contributors: European University Institute.; Robert Schuman Centre.
Series: EUI working paper -- no.99/33
Publisher: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Americanization -- Economic aspects; Industrial management -- United States.; Industrial management -- Europe.; Industrial management -- Japan.; Comparative management.; Reconstruction (1939-1951); Technology transfer -- United States; Technology transfer -- Europe; Technology transfer -- Japan.
Other titles: Reworking US technology and management in postwar Europe and Japan
Notes: At head of title: European University Institute, Florence, Robert Schuman Centre.

"This paper develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a comparative research project involving an international group of scholars.  The project highlights the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions, and strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforseen but often remarkably competitive ways" -- abstract.

At head of title: European University Institute, Florence, Robert Schuman Centre.

Includes bibliographical references and index (p.44-61).