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The Japanese carmaker Toyota is one of the most successful firms of all times. Until the recall problems discussed in Sect. 2.4.2, its widely acknowledged unique way, the “Toyota Production System” (TPS), has been viewed as the main source of its success.
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- 1.
Jeffrey K. Liker, The Toyota Way (14 management principles from the world’s greatest manufacturer). New York: McGraw Hill (2004).
- 2.
Ibid, p. 129.
- 3.
Ibid, pp. xi–xii.
- 4.
Ibid, p. 139.
- 5.
Damon Darlin, Dell Recalls Batteries Because of Fire Threat, The New York Times, Published: August 14, 2006 (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/technology/14cnd-battery.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&).
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Ibid.
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Sony Exploding Batteries—The Chronicles, http://archive.news.softpedia.com/news/Sony-Exploding-Batteries-Chronicles-37848.shtml.
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Personal communication with Professor Hideki Takayasu (December 20, 2014).
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Personal communication with Professor Hideki Takayasu (December 21, 2014).
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D. Sornette, Risk Management and Governance Lessons and Prospects From The 2007–20XX Crisis, REVUE für Postheroisches Management 7, 44–53 (2010).
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B. De Marchi, S. Funtowicz, and J. Ravetz, Seveso: A paradoxical classic disaster, Mitchell (note 5), 1996.
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Barbara Pozzo, The implementation of the Seveso Directives in an enlarged Europe: a look into the past and a challenge for the future, 2009, p. xx.
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B. De Marchi, S. Funtowicz, and J. Ravetz, Seveso: A paradoxical classic disaster, Mitchell (note 5), 1996.
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Bruno Sudret, private communication (19 Feb. 2015).
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Chernov, D., Sornette, D. (2016). Successful Risk Information Management. In: Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24301-6_5
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