List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

List of abbreviations

1 The Marshall Plan and the transfer of US management models to Europe: an introductory framework

OVE BJARNAR

MATTHIAS KIPPING

2 From business reform programme to production drive: the transformation of US technical assistance to Western Europe

JACQUELINE MCGLADE

PART I Transfer mechanisms and channels

3 The European Productivity Agency: a faithful prophet of the American model?

BENT BOEL

4 `Operation Impact': converting European employers to the American creed

MATTHIAS KIPPING

5 US-owned manufacturing affiliates and the transfer of managerial techniques: the British case

JOHN H. DUNNING

6 The regional dissemination of American productivity models in Norway in the 1950s and 1960s

ROLV PETTER AMDAM

OVE BJARNAR

PART II The transfer process

7 Americanisation beyond the mass production paradigm: the case of British industry

JIM TOMLINSON

NICK TIRATSOO

8 Americanisation and the `Swedish model' of industrial relations: the introduction of the MTM system at Volvo in the postwar period

HENRIK GLIMSTEDT

9 The limits of Americanisation and the emergence of an alternative model: the Marshall Plan in Emilia-Romagna

DAVID W. ELLWOOD

PART III The translation and transformation

10 An Americanised company in Germany: the Vereinigte Glanzstoff Fabriken AG in the 1950s

CHRISTIAN KLEINSCHMIDT

11 Selective adaptation of American management models: the long-term relationship of Pechiney with the United States

LUDOVIC CAILLUET

12 Learning from America: the remodelling of Italy's public-sector steel industry in the 1950s and 1960s

RUGGERO RANIERI

Index