Industrial Cultures and Production

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Scientific Concepts of Industrial Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Industrial Culture and Production - Towards a New Research Approach

      • Felix Rauner, Klaus Ruth

      Pages 3-17

   3. Industrial Cultures - Theory and Methods of Cross-National Comparisons

      • Lauge Rasmussen

      Pages 18-39

   4. The Cultural and Social Shaping of Factory Automation: Towards a New Research Agenda

      • J. Martin Corbett

      Pages 40-57

   5. Industrial Culture and Design Methodology

      • Thomas Binder, Klaus T. Nielsen

      Pages 58-69

   6. Industrial Culture and Software Production

      • Jürgen Friedrich

      Pages 70-83

   7. Industrial Culture - An Action-Oriented View at Innovation and Production

      • Klaus Ruth

      Pages 84-103

3. Empirical Investigations of Competitiveness of the Machine Tool Industry in Different Industrial Cultures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Research and Development Activities to Enhance Market Competitiveness of Products in Japanese Machine Tool Industry

      • Yoshimi Ito

      Pages 107-133

   3. Synthetic, Pragmatic, Analytic - A Comparison of the Japanese, American and German Approaches to Machine Tool Design

      • Eckehard Fozzy Moritz

      Pages 134-158

   4. The Machine Tool Industry in Germany and the United States from the Perspective of Industrial Culture

      • Gabrielle Laske

      Pages 159-175

   5. Industrial Cultures and Machine Tool Industries: Competitiveness and Innovation Trajectories

      • Klaus Ruth

      Pages 176-198

   6. Shop Floor Oriented Programming - Experience from a Joint Development Project with the German Machine Tool Industry

      • Peter Brödner

      Pages 199-210

   7. The Social Shaping of Machine Tool Design and Manufacture in the United Kingdom: Some Preliminary Findings

      • J. Martin Corbett

      Pages 211-221

4. Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness

   1. Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness

      • Lauge Rasmussen, Felix Rauner

      Pages 222-229

This book contains a selection of articles on the subject of 'Culture and Production'. They are results of international conferences held in Tokyo, Washington and Bremen between 1991 and 1994. The International Research Network on Culture and Production (CAPIRN) carried out a 5-year joint research project examining the impact of different industrial cultures on the development and implementation, and above all on the international transfer of technology. The machine tools sector was selected for this international comparative study, because over the last 15 years this global market has undergone dramatic changes that cannot be adequately explained by traditional economic theories of international competition. The 'industrial culture' research concept permits an analysis and understanding of hitherto unrecognised interrelationships between the dimensions of different industrial cultures and the process of technological innovation in international competition. The special challenge faced by CAPIRN was to develop the theoretical concept of industrial culture further and to apply it within a large-scale international study. A considerable amount of work in this field has been published by CAPIRN members since 1990. This book is the first compilation of research findings in the field of industrial culture. We wish to express our thanks to the national research councils in the participant countries, the FORCE and FAST programmes of the European Union, the Japanese Ministry for Industry, MITI, and the Hans Bockler Foundation, to mention only some of the many bodies that have provided support.

• Area
• Factor
• Project
• automation
• design
• development
• implementation
• innovation
• network
• production
• programming
• selection
• software
• technology
• tool

• Institute of Technology & Social Sciences, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

  Lauge Rasmussen

• Institute of Technology and Education, University of Bremen, Germany

  Felix Rauner

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