New Wave Manufacturing Strategies Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions

`Overall, the chapters are well-written and the editor has done an excellent job of commissioning the chapters from leading experts in their respective fields. The chapters are clear and accessible state-of-the-art reviews and absolutely recommendable to anyone interested in the organizational and technical aspects of modern production technology' - Journal of the Operational Research Society `Particularly useful as a text on "people" courses directed at engineering students as well as those aimed at giving management and other social science students an appreciation of the technical aspects of some of the key issues facing manufacturing industry' - Work, Employment and Society `The book is extremely well constructed and of high value, not only because the chapters are written by well-known academics, but they also follow common rules: almost all of them contain theoretical background, empirical results and a quite rich literature' - International Journal of Production Economics