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OVERVIEW

This book examines how companies in Germany’s critically important capital goods sector are adapting to competitiveness challenges, new production requirements, environmental demands, and policy pressures through technological and organizational changes in their methods of manufacturing. The book draws on a unique nationwide survey of technology use and production in Germany, conducted by the the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations Research. Readers will gain new, up-to-date insights about the diffusion of new production concepts, the interaction of process and product innovations, and effects on productivity, employment, employee involvement and work flexibility. They will also learn about the adoption of new production concepts in Eastern Germany, relationships with transborder relocation, the take-up of selected environmental technologies, and the implications for policy.

Dieses Buch untersucht, wie sich einer der industriellen Kernbereiche Deutschlands, die Investitionsgüterindustrie, mithilfe technisch-organisatorischer Veränderungen in seinen Produktionsstrukturen an die Herausforderungen im Wettbewerb, neue Fertigungsanforderungen, Forderungen des Umweltschutzes und politische Rahmenbedingungen anpaßt. Das Buch baut dabei auf der einmaligen, bundesweiten Erhebung "Innovationen in der Produktion" des Fraunhofer ISI auf.

PUBLISHER. Physica-Verlag (Heidelberg and New York), 1998

PREVIEW. Table of Contents; Chapter 1; Contributors

FOR MORE INFORMATION. About the book - contact Heike Fütterer or order online.  See also the web page of the  Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations Research.

15 January 2004