The Economics of Modern Manufacturing: Technology, Strategy, and Organization
构建了一个企业优化模型，解释现代制造业中柔性多产品生产、质量优先和快速响应市场等特征，无需可微性或凸性假设即可处理优化和比较静态问题。
Manufacturing is undergoing a revolution. The mass production model is being replaced by a vision of a flexible multiproduct firm that emphasizes quality and speedy response to market conditions while utilizing technologically advanced equipment and new forms of organization. The authors' optimizing model of the firm generates many of the observed patterns that mark modern manufacturing. Central to the authors' results is a method of handling optimization and comparative statics problems that requires neither differentiability nor convexity. Copyright 1990 by American Economic Association.