{"product_id":"9783790815788","title":"Contributions to Management Science: From Ford to the Case of Mercedes-Benz","description":"\u003ch1\u003eContributions to Management Science: From Ford to the Case of Mercedes-Benz\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eClarke, Constanze\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn January 2000, Mercedes-Benz started to implement the Mercedes-Benz Prod- tion System (MPS) throughout its world-wide passenger car plants. This event is exemplary of a trend within the automotive industry: the creation and introduction of company-specific standardised production systems. It gradually emerged with the introduction of the Chrysler Operating System (COS) in the mid-1990s and represents a distinct step in the process towards implementing the universal pr- ciples of lean thinking as propagated by the MIT-study. For the academic field of industrial sociology and labour policy, the emergence of this trend seems to mark a new stage in the evolution of the debate about production systems in the auto- tive industry (Jürgens 2002:2), particularly as it seems to undermine the stand of the critics of the one-best way model (Boyer and Freyssenet 1995). The introduction of company-level standardised production systems marks the starting point of the present study. At the core of it is a case study about the M- cedes Benz Production System (MPS).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Physica\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2005-04-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783790815788\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/b138988\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 238\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Physica-Verlag HD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47379841417356,"sku":"9783790815788","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783790815788.jpg?v=1775731854","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783790815788","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}