Diversity in the lean automobile factory: Re-doing class along socio-demographic identities

Academy of Management 2009 Annual Meeting: Green Management Matters, AOM 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zanoni, Patrizia ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Class; Diversity; Value

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE FACTORIES; CLASS; DIVERSITY; LEAN PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PRODUCTION PROCESS; RESTRUCTURING PROCESS; VALUE; WORKERS';

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 73149098703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2009.44244339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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