The Same Old Principles in the New Manufacturing

Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization, Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright, and Kim B. Clark (New York: Free Press, 1988) 429 pages, $24.95. American Business: A Two-Minute Warning, C. Jackson Grayson, Jr. and Carla O’Dell (New York: Free Press, 1988) 368 pages, $24.95. In the fall of 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor rushed into print […]

by

David A. Hounshell

by

David A. Hounshell

From the Magazine (November 1988)

Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization, Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright, and Kim B. Clark (New York: Free Press, 1988) 429 pages, $24.95.

A version of this article appeared in the November 1988 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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David A. Hounshell was a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School during the academic year 1987–1988 and is professor of history at the University of Delaware. He is the author of From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984) and coauthor of Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D 1902–1980 (Cambridge University Press, 1988).

The Same Old Principles in the New Manufacturing

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