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Evolution of Manufacturing Systems at Toyota | 
 enlarge | Author: Takahiro Fujimoto
Publisher: Productivity Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 880292
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0195123204
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.234
EAN: 9780195123203
ASIN: 0195123204
Publication Date: September 7, 2001
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Product Description
Through original field studies, historical research, and statistical analyses, this book shows how the Toyota Motor Corporation built - and continues to build - distinctive capabilities in production, product development, and supplier management as part of a total system. Fujimoto reinterprets the resource-capability view of the firm and uses an evolutionary perspective to show how an effective total manufacturing system creates sustainable competitive advantages. Scholars and students of strategy, operations, and technology management, as well as practitioners in the automobile industry, will find the Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota insightful and informative.
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 Unconscious Learning is not Evolution August 24, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I intensely dislike the abuse of the word "evolution". This is an example. Evolution is a characteristic of a species, not the individuals that are part of the species. The individuals change by LEARNING, as best they can, not by evolving. If organizatonal practices change without conscious design, that is a perfect example of organizational learning. If the organizational practices in an industry change because the organizations who use one practice fail and those using another don't, that is evolution.
 Strategic capabilities can be born unintentionnally June 13, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A book that tries to highlight the role of system formation processes that aren't deliberately planned in Toyota. It is written after the author's past works on functional analysis of existing/planned manufacturing systems in the automobile industry and Toyota in particular. The presentation adopts the evolutionary approach considering that manufacturing systems aren't merely a product of deliberately planning. Some of Toyota's successful routines may have originated unintentionally. Social systems often evolve because of unanticipated events and unplanned behavior. This idea is related to system emergence, a concept central to his evolutionary framework. What the author has presented and uncovered from Toyota's experience can be happened in other companies or may have been taken place in other companies. This is an example of work that we cannot find easily for other successful companies using an evolutionary approach, not strictly in a neo-darwinian framework. This book gives us general idea on how company's organizational capabilities were born and helps us understand particularly how Toyota has created its style manufacturing system and capabilities. A book that is worth-reading not only by scholars and students in management and organizational science, but also by those being actors in companies' building capabilities.
Strategic capabilities can be born unintentionnally June 13, 2000
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
A book that tries to highlight the role of system formation processes that aren't deliberately planned in Toyota. It is written after the author's past works on functional analysis of existing/planned manufacturing systems in automobile industry and Toyota in particular. The presentation adopts the evolutionary approach considering that manufacturing systems aren't merely a product of deliberately planning. Some of Toyota's successful routines may have originated unintentionally. Social systems often evolve because of unanticipated events and unplanned behavior. This idea is related to system emergence, a concept central to the evolutionary framework the author has adopted. What the author has presented and uncovered from Toyota's experience can be happened in other companies or may have been taken place in other companies. This is an example of presentation that we cannot find easily for other successful companies using an evolutionary approach, not strictly in a neo-darwinian framework. This book gives us general idea on how company's organizational capabilities were born and helps us understand particularly how Toyota has created its style manufacturing system and capabilities. A book that is worth-reading not only for scholars and students in management and organizational science, but also by those being actors in companies' building capabilities.
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