Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 America's Productivity Paralysis -- 2 How Did We Get Into This Mess? -- 3 The Quest for the Holy Grail of Production Management -- 4 A Revolution at John Deere -- 5 First Change the Culture, Then Change Production -- 6 Redesigning...

The recent development in the Slovak economy erased a significant competitive advantage of manufacturing - low labour cost. The paper analyses the driving factors of rising unit labour costs in the manufacturing sector. The paper aims to explain why the unexpectedly rapid loss of traditional...

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