Part 1 Introduction: change and individual companies; change and the industrial focus; change and the international focus; strategy and change; the aims and objectives; the structure of the book. Part 2 Technological continuity and change: the context of technological change; strategy and organizational learning - stability, control and change. Part 3 National advantage - some theory and evidence: the national environment - systems of technology transfer; education and training; industrial relations; the financial system. Part 4 Technology and human resources - a strategic overview: introduction - the aims of the chapter; strategy and competitiveness; technology strategy - the literature; human resource strategy; strategy and the car industry. Part 5 International comparisons of corporate and technological performance: introduction; international research; Anglo-German comparisons; choice of methodology; conclusion - testing the hypotheses. Part 6 The automotive components industry: continuity and change - competitive success in the automotive industry; strategic dependence in the components industry; the automotive components industry; the development of industrial practice; the post-Japanese model and the industrial environment faced by Lucas and Bosch; appraisal of the model; including human resource and technology strategies; conclusions - achieving the post-Japanese model. Part 7 Lucas Industries PLC and Robert Bosch GmBH: Robert Bosch GmBH; Lucas Industries PLC; the two companies within the components industry; strategy and the components industry in the eighties; Lucas and Bosch in their national context; institutional factors. Part 8 Bosch and Lucas at a plant level - the case of Feuerbach and Sudbury: Bosch - Feuerbach; Lucas Diesel Systems, Sudbury. Part 9 Lucas car braking systems: Lucas car braking systems; Lucas car braking systems - performance indicators; Lucas car braking systms - technology strategy; Lucas car braking systems - human resource strategy; the two plants - Koblenz and Pontypool; Lucas car braking systems, Koblenz; Lucas car braking systems, Pontypool; comparisons of the two plants. Part 10 Analysis of the questionnaire: examining the questionnaire; the sample; attitudes to change consultation procedures; attitudes to personal development and company training; conclusions - convergence, dispersion, location and extremes in the two distributions. Part 11 Conclusions: introduction - change and company strategy; main findings - testing of hypotheses; implications of the research findings; reflecting on the research - learning by doing!
