'Americanising British engineering? Strategic debate, selective adoption and hybrid innovation in post war reconstruction, 1945-60' in J Zeitlin & G Herrigel (eds), Americanisation and its Limits. Reworking US technology and management in post war Europe
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- Author(s) Zeitlin, Jonathan
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2000
- Pages pp123-52
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Government intervention exc legislation & regulation
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Considers 'contours' of debate re Americanisation of British engineering and metal working industries and their reconstruction as a key industrial sector dealing in particular with 1] efforts by government to push British industry towards adoption of American style production; 2] contemporary objections to these proposals and reassessment of impact on industry; 3] causal link between the limits of Americanisation and the subsequent decline of British manufacturing