Industrial Cultures and Production: Understanding Competitiveness

Section I: Scientific Concepts of Industrial Culture.- 1. Industrial Culture and Production - Towards a New Research Approach.- 2. Industrial Cultures - Theory and Methods of Cross-National Comparisons.- 3. The Cultural and Social Shaping of Factory Automation: Towards a New Research Agenda.- 4. Industrial Culture and Design Methodology.- 5. Industrial Culture and Software Production.- 6. Industrial Culture - An Action-Oriented View at Innovation and Production.- Section II: Empirical Investigations of Competitiveness of the Machine Tool Industry in Different Industrial Cultures.- 7. Research and Development Activities to Enhance Market Competitiveness of Products in Japanese Machine Tool Industry.- 8. Synthetic, Pragmatic, Analytic - A Comparison of the Japanese, American and German Approaches to Machine Tool Design.- 9. The Machine Tool Industry in Germany and the United States from the Perspective of Industrial Culture.- 10. Industrial Cultures and Machine Tool Industries: Competitiveness and Innovation Trajectories.- 11. Shop Floor Oriented Programming - Experience from a Joint Development Project with the German Machine Tool Industry.- 12. The Social Shaping of Machine Tool Design and Manufacture in the United Kingdom: Some Preliminary Findings.- Conclusion: Understanding Competitiveness.