Activités des membres

1. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol.6, n.4 1995 ha pubblicato l'articolo di Arnaldo Camuffo e Giuseppe Volpato, "The Labour Relations: Heritage and Lean Manufacturing at Fiat".

2. La casa editrice Isedi di Torino ha pubblicato il volume di Giuseppe Volpato: Il caso Fiat - Una strategia di riorganizzazione e di rilancio, pp.460.

3. Il giorno 10 maggio 1996, the International Observatory on Mobility and Transportation coordinato da Giuseppe Volpato, Direttore del Dipartimento di Economia e Direzione Aziendale dell'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia ha realizzato un workshop a Milano a cui hanno partecipato tutte le principali case automobilistiche europee, dedicato a: "Problemi e prospettive della commercializzazione automobilistica in Europa".

4. l'International Observatory on Mobility and Transportation del Dipartimento di Economia e Direzione Aziendale dell'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia sta effettuando una ricerca sul rapporto fra produttori italiani di componenti e case automobilistiche. La ricerca sarà presentata al prossimo forum organizzato dall'IMVP del Massachusetts Institute of Technology che si terra a São Paulo del Brasile dal 10 al 12 giugno.

Takahiro Fujimoto

His recent publications (this does not include a book on assembly automation that Ulrich Jürgens, he and Koichi Shimokawa are co-editing. He is also working on a paper on "fat design" syndrome for a GERPISA volume on product variety):

Fujimoto, T., and Takeishi, A. (1995) "An International Comparison of Productivity and Product Development Performance in the Automobile Industry." In Minami, R., Kim, K.S., Makino, F., and Seo, J., ed., Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies - Lesson from the Japanese Experience -. St. Martin's Press.

Ellison, D. J., Clark, Kim B., Fujimoto, T., and Hyun, Y.(1995) "Product Development Performance in the Auto Industry: 1990s Update." Harvard Business School Working Paper 95-066.

Fujimoto, T. (1996) "An Evolutionary Process of Toyota's Final Assembly Operations - The Role of Ex-post Dynamic Capabilities", Tokyo University Discussion Paper.

Arnoud Lagendijk

The European Network on Industry, Innovation and Territory (EUNIT) organises a summer school focusing on the issue of regional competitiveness in Europe, which will be held from Monday 9 to Friday 13 September 1996 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Arnoud Lagendijk and David Charles are co-ordinators.

Objectives:

The summer school will address theoretical, methodological and practical issues of the relationship between regional development and innovation. Particular attention will be paid to the regional competitiveness agenda of peripheral and old industrial areas in Europe. The objective of the summer school is to give young researchers ample opportunity to present, discuss and reflect on their work in this field and meet other junior and senior researchers. The programme will contain plenary sessions in which EUNIT scholars and researchers introduce discussions on various dimensions of the regional innovation issue, and workshops which are organised around three key projects. The workshops will include a visit to regional agencies involved in economic development. Participants are expected to sign up for one of the projects. The programme will also include an excursion to various sites showing initiatives of industrial development and innovation in the North East of England.

The projects are:

1. Inward investment in the North East of England: economic development, policies and institutions. This project will focus on supply chain linkages, embedding international investments, and the role of institutions in place marketing. Also the issue will be raised whether a `milieu innovateur' can be identified in the North East.

2. Comparing regional performance and competitiveness in Europe: a benchmarking approach. This project focuses on the methodological issues surrounding the question of how to compare different types of regions in Europe, with emphasis on peripheral and old industrial areas. Practical themes are the selection of indicators to measure performance and the management of international comparative research.

3. How to match regional competitiveness with cohesion at a European level: the role of institutions. This project is based on the filiere research undertaken in EUNIT. It will address the issue of rising inter-regional competition in various industries, and focus on the role of institutions at different spatial levels.

Jean-Jacques Chanaron

Il a participé à une réunion à l'ACEA à Bruxelles le 13 mai 1996 sur la formation dans l'industrie automobile pour faire face aux changements technologiques et organisationnels en tant qu'expert universitaire auprès du programme LEONARDO.

Il a également participé à la CEE à Bruxelles le 14 mai 1996 à la première réunion du Forum Européen sur la Science et la technologie pour lequel il prépare un colloque à Londres en mars 1997 sur la base de trois études sectorielles sur le changement technologique en très longue période dont une sur l'automobile dont il a la charge.

Cândido Guerra Ferreira

Candido Guerra Ferreira, enseignant-chercheur à la Faculté d'Economie de l'Université Fédérale de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brésil, est a Paris jusqu'à février 1997 pour un séjour post doctoral (année sabbatique), au C.R.E.I. (Centre de Recherche en Économie Industrielle) de l'Université Paris XIII. Le projet développé dans le cadre de son programme de recherche a pour sujet: "Mutations techniques et organisationnelles et changements dans les rapports de travail - l'émergence de "nouveaux modèles" au niveau mondial et procès de modernisation dans l'industrie brésilienne". L'objectif du projet est l'étude du mouvement récent d'innovations techniques et organisationnelles et de ses conséquences sur les rapports de travail à l'industrie. A partir d'un panorama mondial - et tout en adoptant une approche comparative l'investigation sera centrée sur le cas de l'industrie brésilienne au cours de la période récente (années 1980 et début 90s).

Adresse: 52, boulevard Rochechouart 75018 - Paris, tél : (33)(1) 42626190.

Les membres du GERPISA publient...

Nadya Araújo de Castro (org.), A máquina e o equilibrista. Inovações na indústria automobilística brasileira (Paz e Terra, São Paulo), avec la participation de Afonso Fleury, John Humphrey, Mário Sérgio Salerno, Nadya Araújo Castro, Roberto Marx et allii.

A máquina é esta mesma que, desde Henry Ford, "transformou o mundo". O equilibrista são os trabalhadores da indústria automobilística que, em meio às turbulências da reestruturação produtiva em curso no mundo e engatinhando no Brasil, tentam resistir, compreender, propor medidas e acordos que não desestruturem selvagemente uma categoria sindical hoje muito organizada e cuja relevância para a vida sindical e as conquistas democráticas são simplesmente notáveis.

Essas transformações repõem a grave interrogação, quase nos mesmos termos de Weber: as modificações nos processos produtivos, na direção da robotização, da flexibilização do trabalho, no deslocamento da centralidade do posto de trabalho, serão compatíveis com os sindicatos de massa tal como eles foram moldados na relação patrões- empregados- Estado própria do fordismo?

E mais ainda, serão compatíveis com a democracia? Tal é a gravidade da questão que as câmaras setoriais problematizam. Não há reflexão mais contemporânea.