Knowledge Management Capabilities for Steel Makers: A British-Japanese Corporate Alliance for Organizational Learning
Knowledge Management Capabilities for Steel Makers: A British-Japanese Corporate Alliance for Organizational Learning
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钢铁制造商的知识管理能力:英日企业组织学习联盟
DOI:
10.1080/095373299107393
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
S. Collinson
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作者:
S. Collinson
This paper draws on a detailed case-study of a technical alliance between British Steel Strip Products (BSSP) and a leading Japanese steel company which was established to help the UK producer improve its product quality, its production control management and its customer links with Japanese car company transplants in the UK. The study is one of a series of comparisons of leading UK and Japanese manufacturing companies, from the steel, aerospace, telecoms and chemical industries. The overall project has been funded under the ESRC Innovation Programme. Evidence of the success of the alliance is illustrated in a series of graphs depicting the reduction in scrap and steel losses from particular BSSP mill sites and clear improvements in quality and productivity levels at these sites. The case-study traces these improvements back to specific management practices transferred from the Japanese producer as part of the alliance. Detailed evidence comes from the activities of 'Task Teams' which were assembled, with...