Routledge Coping with Variety: Flexible Productive Systems for Product Variety in the Auto Industry (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses’ how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors. About the Author Jean-Jacques Chanaron CNRS Director, GERPISA and CSU-IRESCO, Paris, France.  Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan). Daniel M.G. Raff (Wharton School, USA).