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Institutional and cultural barriers to transferring Lean production to China: evidence from a German automotive components manufacturer
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posted on 2015-02-02, 16:12 authored by Angelika ZimmermannAngelika Zimmermann, Marc BollbachOur qualitative study of a globally operating German automotive components manufacturer demonstrates how certain cognitive dispositions and behaviours of Chinese employees acted as barriers to the transfer of the firm’s Lean production system to its subsidiaries in China. We analyse how these barriers were rooted in the Chinese institutional and cultural context, thereby contributing a new micro-level perspective to business systems literature. Our findings further suggest that manufacturing in China will not be truly ‘Lean’ in the near future, which may place constraints on China’s technological development at a larger scale.
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School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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Asian Business & ManagementVolume
14Issue
1Pages
53 - 85 (32)Citation
ZIMMERMANN, A. and BOLLBACH, M., 2015. Institutional and cultural barriers to transferring Lean production to China: evidence from a German automotive components manufacturer. Asian Business & Management, 14 (1), pp. 53 - 85.Publisher
© Palgrave MacmillanVersion
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Asian Business & Management. The definitive publisher-authenticated version ZIMMERMANN, A. and BOLLBACH, M., 2015. Institutional and cultural barriers to transferring Lean production to China: evidence from a German automotive components manufacturer. Asian Business & Management, 14 (1), pp. 53 - 85. is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/abm.2014.18ISSN
1472-4782Publisher version
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