Duguay, Claude R.; Landry, Sylvain; Pasin, Federico - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 17 (1997) 12, pp. 1183-1195
In industrial management, the 1980s marked the end of the twentieth century, an epoch dominated by US manufacturers, the alleged masters of mass production. This system has now been outstripped in several dynamic sectors by flexible/agile production. Increases in the pace of technological...