The Domestication of Global XPS at Local Production Sites

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Inspired by the success created by Toyota and its Toyota Production System (TPS), many large multinational corporations have developed their own company-specific production systems (XPSs). However, it varies to what degree local production sites have made use of the global corporate's PS and in what way it has had any effect on the local site's work practice. In this paper we discuss the technical, social, and cultural factors of the implementation of XPS through the lenses of domestication theory. This study indicates that a rational implementation of global XPS' is all practical, symbolic, and cognitive, and that development of new technology as well as production systems is a multi-sited process. Hence, corporates as well as local sites need to take account for how local managers and employees are involved in the implementation process. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014.

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Finnestrand, H. O., & Magerøy, K. (2014). The Domestication of Global XPS at Local Production Sites. In IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (Vol. 439, pp. 458–465). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44736-9_56

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