Technology and human resources in their national context: a study of strategic contrasts
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables x
List of Figures xii
Preface xiii
1 Introduction
1 Introduction 1
Change and individual companies 2
Change and the industrial focus 3
j Change and the international focus 3
| Strategy and change 4
i The aims and objectives 7
The structure of the book 7
2 Technological continuity and change
The context of technological change 10
Technological long waves and radical changes in paradigm 10
A strategic perspective of change: a preliminary overview 14
Strategy and organizational learning: stability,
control and change 16
Defining organizational learning 20
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3 National advantage: some theory and evidence
Introduction 25
The national environment: systems of technology transfer 25
Patel and Pavitt s case of non globalisation 27
Porter s analysis of the competitive advantage of nations 28
Education and training 30
Compulsory education 31
Industrial relations 37
Supervisory representation 38
Strategy formulation 39
Strategy coordination 40
Introduction of technology 41
Evaluation and comparison 41
The financial system 45
Finance and strategy 47
Conclusions 50
4 Technology and human resources: a strategic overview
Introduction: the aims of the chapter 51
Strategy and competitiveness 52
The literature: strategy and the environment 52
Strategy in this book: key strategic and
environmental areas 54
Technology strategy: the literature 57
Technology strategy in this book 59
Human resource strategy 60
The literature 60
Human resource strategy in this book 65
Strategy and the car industry 68
Technology and human resource strategy in the car
industry a focus for research 72
Conclusions 74
5 International comparisons of corporate and technological
performance
Introduction 76
International research 77
Micro studies 78
Macro studies 81
Micro with macro studies 84
Anglo German comparisons 86
Environmental approach 87
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Statistical approaches 88
Industrial/institutional approach 89
Strategy and performance approaches 92
Choice of methodology 94
The study of strategy: a case study approach 95
Secondary literature and interviews with practitioners 98
In depth company study and interviews 99
Site visits 99
Questionnaire survey 99
Strategic coherence and strategic continuity 100
Conclusion: testing the hypotheses 101
6 The automotive components industry
Continuity and change: competitive success
in the automotive industry 103
Strategic dependence in the components industry 105
The automotive components industry 108
The post Japanese model 109
The features of the post Japanese model 110
The development of industrial practice 111
The post Japanese model and the industrial environment
faced by Lucas and Bosch 112
Appraisal of the model 113
Over generalisation 113
Complex relationship models 114
Including human resource and technology strategies 115
Conclusions: achieving the post Japanese model 116
7 Lucas Industries PLC and Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH 117
Lucas Industries PLC 119
The two companies within the components industry 121
Comparison of sales 121
Employment 122
Technological performance 122
Comparison of R D expenditure 124
Patenting accounted for by the automotive division 125
Comparison of size and patents in the
European components industry 125
Strategy and the components industry in the eighties 126
Strategy at Lucas 127
Strategy at Bosch 130
Lucas and Bosch in their national context 133
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Robert Bosch 133
Lucas Industries 137
Institutional factors 138
Bosch and the educational establishment 139
Bosch and industrial relations 141
Bosch and finance 143
Lucas and education and training 143
Lucas and industrial relations 145
Lucas and finance 146
Conclusions 147
8 Bosch and Lucas at a plant level: the case of Feuerbach
and Sudbury
Introduction 148
Bosch Feuerbach 150
Employment at Feuerbach 151
Production at Feuerbach 152
Feuerbach and education and training 152
Feuerbach and industrial relations 153
Feuerbach and the racial division of labour 154
Lucas Diesel Systems, Sudbury 156
Employment at Sudbury 157
Production at Sudbury 158
Sudbury and education and training 160
Sudbury and industrial relations 162
Conclusions 164
9 Lucas Car Braking Systems
Introduction 167
Lucas Car Braking Systems 167
Lucas Car Braking Systems: performance indicators 171
Lucas Car Braking Systems: technology strategy 171
Lucas Car Braking Systems: human resource strategy 172
The two plants: Koblenz and Pontypool 173
Lucas Car Braking Systems, Koblenz 173
Lucas Car Braking Systems, Pontypool 175
Comparisons of the two plants 179
10 Analysis of the questionnaire
Introduction 181
Examining the questionnaire 182
The sample 182
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Attitudes to change 188
Consultation procedures 193
Attitudes to personal development and company training 194
Conclusions: convergence, dispersion, location and
extremes in the two distributions 197
Analysis of the data 198
Conclusions 198
11 Conclusions
Introduction: change and company strategy 200
Main findings: testing of hypotheses 201
Hypothesis 1 201
Hypothesis 2 204
Hypothesis 3 206
Implications of the research findings 213
Academic studies 213
The companies 214
Reflecting on the research: learning by doing! 215
Bibliography 217
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List of tables
Table 3.1 Research expenditure 1987
(FRG and UK) £m equivalent 26
Table 3.2 UK research expenditure 1987 27
Table 3.3 Approaches to the joint
regulation of technological change 41
Table 3.4 Commercial interests of the
big three banks (1986) 48
Table 7.1 Comparative sales figures,
Lucas and B osch 1977 1990 123
Table 7.2 Lucas and Bosch employment: 1982 1990 123
Table 7.3 Level of US patents 124
Table 7.4 Lucas and Bosch: R D expenditure 124
Table 7.5 Comparative vehicle patents: 1969 1986 124
Table 7.6 European components suppliers:
patents in the US 1981 1986 125
Table 7.7 Lucas employment by division
(1982 1988) 127
Table 8.1 Levels of absenteeism: Feuerbach (1989) 155
Table 8.2 Lernstatt at Feuerbach, 1989 156
Table 8.3 Take up of training at
Lucas Sudbury (1989) 161
Table 10.1 Summary statistics, question 2
change in work content 190
Table 10.2 Summary statistics, question 3
change in quality of work 192
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Table 10.3 Summary statistics, question 4
individuals likely to act
on constructive suggestion 194
Table 10.4 Questions 5 10: attitudes to self
development 195
Table 10.5 Questions 1 10 statistics testing
hypothesis that two samples are the same 199
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List of figures
Figure 1.1 Strategic fusion 5
Figure 3.1 Porter s diamond of national
competitive advantage 29
Figure 3.2 YTS entrants and places 33
Figure 3.3 Employed foreign migrant workers,
1976 1989 34
Figure 3.4 Gastarbeiter employment by
sector (1989) 35
Figure 8.1 Employees at Feuerbach 151
Figure 8.2 Gross annual stocks and sales 159
Figure 9.2 Index of sales turnover (1983 1990) 171
Figure 9.3 Graduate retention, 1978 1989 178
Figure 10.1 Employment breakdown of respondents 184
Figure 10.2 Length of service of respondents 185
Figure 10.3 Age of respondents 186
Figure 10.4 Perceptions of change in work content 189
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