Flexible practices for mass production goals: economic governance in the Indian automobile industry
解释了印度汽车行业如何通过采用灵活的生产实践来克服供应瓶颈、满足扩张需求,并指出未能采用这些实践的企业表现不佳,而实现规模经济的企业进而获得了范围经济。
This paper explains the remarkable restructuring of the Indian automobile industry. It argues that firms have had to deploy new governance modes (flexible industrial practices) for economic coordination to overcome supply bottlenecks and meet expanding demand. Firms that failed to adopt these practices performed poorly, while firms that attained economies of scale were able to graduate to exploiting economies of scope. The industry experience suggests that new governance modes can serve mass production goals in developing economies and not just cushion market volatility, for which they were designed.