Gary Herrigel is a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from MIT in the Program of Science, Technology, and Society and the Political Science Department. He has published widely on topics related to industrial development, regional industrial policy, corporate governance, comparative political economy, social theory, and business and economic history in Germany, the United States, and Japan. In particular he is the author of Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge University Press, 1996) which analyzed regional differentiation and alternative governance forms in German industrialization. Herrigel also co-edited with Jonathan Zeitlin, Americanization and its Limits : Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan (Oxford University Press, 2000).

There are very few well known social and political theorists who have engaged as extensively and over as long a period of time time in the analysis of industrial change in Germany and other leading economies as Gary Herrigel...At a time when much social scientific attention seems to be directed toward the emigration of industry from developed economies to emerging ones,this book's pragmatic theoretical argument and extensive historical analysis of the continual recomposition of traditional industries and regions has a very high value...In general, the book is a great resource for anyone who believes that manufacturing in developed economies has a future.

• Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, and Industrial Recomposition ; PART I: INDUSTRIAL RECOMPOSITION: THE STEEL INDUSTRY IN POST-WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES, GERMANY, AND JAPAN ; 1. American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Restructuring the steel industry in Japan and Germany after World War II ; 2. Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the US 1950-1974 ; 3. Left for Dead? Recombinant Steel Industries in Germany, Japan, and the US since 1974 ; PART II: CONTEMPORARY RECOMPOSITION IN THE US AND GERMANY: COPING WITH VERTICAL DISINTEGRATION ON A GLOBAL SCALE ; 4. Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer-Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains ; 5. Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and its Globalization ; 6. Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the US Compared ; 7. Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation, and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany ; Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power, and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities

Gary Herrigel is a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from MIT in the Program of Science, Technology, and Society and the Political Science Department. He has published widely on topics related to industrial development, regional industrial policy, corporate governance, comparative political economy, social theory, and business and economic history in Germany, the United States, and Japan. In particular he is the author of Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge University Press, 1996) which analyzed regional differentiation and alternative governance forms in German industrialization. Herrigel also co-edited with Jonathan Zeitlin, Americanization and its Limits : Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan (Oxford University Press, 2000).

There are very few well known social and political theorists who have engaged as extensively and over as long a period of time time in the analysis of industrial change in Germany and other leading economies as Gary Herrigel...At a time when much social scientific attention seems to be directed toward the emigration of industry from developed economies to emerging ones,this book's pragmatic theoretical argument and extensive historical analysis of the continual recomposition of traditional industries and regions has a very high value...In general, the book is a great resource for anyone who believes that manufacturing in developed economies has a future.

• Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, and Industrial Recomposition ; PART I: INDUSTRIAL RECOMPOSITION: THE STEEL INDUSTRY IN POST-WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES, GERMANY, AND JAPAN ; 1. American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Restructuring the steel industry in Japan and Germany after World War II ; 2. Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the US 1950-1974 ; 3. Left for Dead? Recombinant Steel Industries in Germany, Japan, and the US since 1974 ; PART II: CONTEMPORARY RECOMPOSITION IN THE US AND GERMANY: COPING WITH VERTICAL DISINTEGRATION ON A GLOBAL SCALE ; 4. Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer-Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains ; 5. Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and its Globalization ; 6. Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the US Compared ; 7. Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation, and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany ; Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power, and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities

Gary Herrigel is a professor in the Political Science department at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from MIT in the Program of Science, Technology, and Society and the Political Science Department. He has published widely on topics related to industrial development, regional industrial policy, corporate governance, comparative political economy, social theory, and business and economic history in Germany, the United States, and Japan. In particular he is the author of Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power (Cambridge University Press, 1996) which analyzed regional differentiation and alternative governance forms in German industrialization. Herrigel also co-edited with Jonathan Zeitlin, Americanization and its Limits : Reworking US Technology and Management in Post-war Europe and Japan (Oxford University Press, 2000).

There are very few well known social and political theorists who have engaged as extensively and over as long a period of time time in the analysis of industrial change in Germany and other leading economies as Gary Herrigel...At a time when much social scientific attention seems to be directed toward the emigration of industry from developed economies to emerging ones,this book's pragmatic theoretical argument and extensive historical analysis of the continual recomposition of traditional industries and regions has a very high value...In general, the book is a great resource for anyone who believes that manufacturing in developed economies has a future.

• Introduction: Manufacturing Possibilities, Creative Action, and Industrial Recomposition ; PART I: INDUSTRIAL RECOMPOSITION: THE STEEL INDUSTRY IN POST-WORLD WAR II UNITED STATES, GERMANY, AND JAPAN ; 1. American Occupation, Market Order, and Democracy: Restructuring the steel industry in Japan and Germany after World War II ; 2. Contrasting Forms of Coordination in the Steel Industry: Germany, Japan, and the US 1950-1974 ; 3. Left for Dead? Recombinant Steel Industries in Germany, Japan, and the US since 1974 ; PART II: CONTEMPORARY RECOMPOSITION IN THE US AND GERMANY: COPING WITH VERTICAL DISINTEGRATION ON A GLOBAL SCALE ; 4. Coping with Vertical Disintegration: Customer-Supplier Relations and Producer Strategies in Complex Manufacturing Supply Chains ; 5. Inter-Firm Relations in Global Manufacturing: Disintegrated Production and its Globalization ; 6. Vertical Disintegration in National Context: Germany and the US Compared ; 7. Roles and Rules: Ambiguity, Experimentation, and New Forms of Stakeholderism in Germany ; Conclusion: Changing Business Systems, Power, and the Science of Manufacturing Possibilities