Lean and mean : the changing landscape of corporate power in the age of flexibility /
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New York :
Guilford Press,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Overview: Big firms, small firms, network firms. Pt. II. Reassessing the idea that small firms are the economic development drivers: The myth of small firms as job generators
- Are small firms the technology leaders?
- The evolution (and devolution?) of the Italian industrial districts
- Is Silicon Valley an industrial district? Pt. III. The emerging system of globally networked production: "Flexibility" and the emergence of large firm-led production networks
- Large firm-centered networked production systems in Japan and Europe
- Interfirm production networks in the United States
- The dark side of flexible production. Pt. IV. Rethinking economic development policy: Economic development policy in a world of lean and mean production
- Postscript: reassessing Lean and mean on the eve of the new millenium.