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A description of the influence of the US management model on Europe after 1945 in the ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS HISTORY series. The text analyses the reaction to the US productivity drive in Europe in detail, and is Volume 6 in the series.

Britain and Japan have both achieved a position of global economic primacy. Within each state one region has served as an economic powerhouse. This book compares the two regions of Lancashire and Kansai, each chapter being jointly written by a British and Japanese scholar.

This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 1945, as well as the actual influence on European industries and regions in the 1950s and 1960s.

This volume provides a more in-depth understanding of how the international transfer of technologies is organized and, in particular, challenges the core-periphery model that is still dominant in the extant literature. By looking beyond national systems of innovation, and statistics on foreign trade, patent registration and foreign direct investment, the book sheds more light on the variety of actors involved in the transfer process (including engineers, entrepreneurs, governments, public bodies, firms, etc.) and on how they make use of a broad set of national and international institutions facilitating technology transfer. Put differently, the volume offers a better understanding of the complexity of global technology flows by examining the role and actions of the different actors involved. By bringing together a number of original case studies covering many different countries over the period from the late 19th to the 21st century, the book demonstrates how technology is being transferred through complex processes, involving a variety of actors from several countries using the national and international institutional frameworks.