John Paul MacDuffie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a unique international data set from a 1989-90 survey of 62 automotive assembly plants, and they tested two hypotheses: innovative HR practices affect performance not individually but as interrelated elements in an internally consistent HR bundle or system.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of product variety on manufacturing performance, defined here as total labor productivity and consumer-perceived product quality, using data from the International Motor Vehicle Program (M.I.T.) study of 70 assembly plants worldwide.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework for understanding why high-involvement work practices are adopted more rapidly by some organizations than others is provided. But, the framework is limited to the automotive industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that pragmatic collaborations based on learning by monitoring both advance knowledge and control opportunism and thus align interests between the collaborators, and propose a learning-by-monitoring approach.

TL;DR: Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers in which Honda and the supplier work intensively on narrowly targeted improvement projects in the supplier's plant as mentioned in this paper.