Start-Up Factories

High-Performance Management, Job Quality,
and Regional Advantage

This book charts the experience of start-up factories in adopting high performance management practices and provides insights into how U.S. manufacturing can improve labor productivity and job quality in the coming years. Based on an extensive study of 48 new branch plants - with both U.S. and Japanese parent companies - that began operating between 1978 and 1990, this book explains how best practice manufacturing companies are raising productivity and lowering unit costs by introducing innovative high perfromance management practices.

* This book is co-published with and available from Oxford University Press.