Emerging production systems in the transnationalisation of German car manufacturers: Adaptation, application or innovation?

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 82-100

  Pries, Ludger ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; MANUFACTURED EXPORT; MANUFACTURING; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

GERMANY;

EID: 0042563425     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-005X.00112     Document Type: Article

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