Innovation in Production : the Adoption and Impacts of New Manufacturing Concepts in German Industry /

This book examines how industrial companies in Germany's critically important investment goods sector are deploying new technological and organizational production concepts to adapt to competitiveness challenges, new market requirements, environmental demands, and policy pressures. It draws on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lay, Gunter
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Shapira, Philip, Wengel, Jürgen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 1999.
Series:Technology, Innovation and Policy, Series ofthe Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) ; 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Diffusion of New Production Concepts in Germany
  • Performance Impacts of New Production Concepts
  • Interaction of Process and Product Innovation
  • New Production Concepts and Employment
  • Worker Participation and Process Innovations
  • Flexibility at Work
  • Innovation v. Emigration
  • New Production Concepts and Service Orientation: The Case of Teleservice
  • Environmental Practices in Germany's Investment Goods Sector
  • Adoption of New Production Concepts in East Germany
  • Promotion of CIM in the New Länder
  • Implications for Modernization Strategies and Studies.