NUMMI VS UDDEVALLA

Authors
BERGGREN C
Citation
C. Berggren, NUMMI VS UDDEVALLA, Sloan management review, 35(2), 1994, pp. 37-45
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Management,Business
Journal title
Sloan management review → ACNP
ISSN journal
0019848X
Volume
35
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
37 - 45
Database
ISI
SICI code
0019-848X(1994)35:2<37:NVU>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
WHICH MODEL FOR THE LABOR - INTENSIVE PRODUCTION OF STANDARDIZED PRODU CTS - THE JAPANESE LEAN PRODUCTION MODEL REPRESENTED BY NUMMI or the h olistic alternative represented by Uddevalla - is really the best orga nizational design to support learning? The author revisits Paul Adler and Robert Coles article from the Spring 1993 issue of Sloan Managemen t Review and presents his own side of the debate. Adler and Cole's rej oinder appears at the end of the article.