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You start out by making a photocopy of the Japanese way of producing and organizing. After that it’s a matter of adapting that original photocopy to local reality. It’s like I build a plant which is identical to one which already exists in some other part of the world, because that’s generally how I think a plant should be, after which I put in local managers and they see, they know what elements of the model it’s profitable to use locally and which elements have to be adapted or just dropped. (Italian Plant Manager)
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Botti, H.F. (1998). Going Local: The Hybridization Process as Situated Learning. In: Alvarez, J.L. (eds) The Diffusion and Consumption of Business Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25899-4_12
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