Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Part I Conceptual Blocks and Overview
1 Introduction-Building Conceptual Blocks for an Understanding of Catching Up, Chaebols, and Production Systems
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Conceptual Blocks of Catching Up, Chaebols, and Production Systems
1.2.1 The Catch-Up of the Korean Economy
1.2.1.1 The Catch-Up Mechanism of the Korean Economy
1.2.1.2 Major Empirical Studies on the Korean Economy's Catch-Up Process
1.2.2 Catching Up and Forms of Business Organization

1.2.2.1 The World of Marshallian SMEs
1.2.2.2 Chandlerian and Neo-Schumpeterian Evolutionary Big Firms
1.2.2.3 Hybrid Inter-Firm Relationships and Post-Chandlerian Business World
1.2.2.4 Chaebol Business Groups
1.2.3 Automotive Production Systems
1.2.3.1 Prior Literature on Automobile Production Systems
1.2.3.2 Concepts and Types of Automobile Production Systems
1.2.3.3 Operationalization of Automotive Production Systems
1.3 Conceptualizing Hyundai Motor's Agile Production System as Authoritarian Experimentalism
1.3.1 Conceptual Map of This Book

1.3.2 Hyundai Motor's Agile Production System: An Authoritarian Experimentalism
1.3.2.1 Agile Production Systems
1.3.2.2 Authoritarian Experimentalism
1.3.2.3 Hyundai Motor's Agile Production System as an Authoritarian Experimentalism
References
2 An Overview of Hyundai Motor's Production System
2.1 Hyundai Motor's Production System Before the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
2.2 A Macro-institutional Overview of Hyundai Motor's Production System After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
2.2.1 The 'Middle-Ranked Carmaker's Trap'

2.2.2 Entrepreneurial Management Exploits 'Windows of Opportunity'
2.2.3 Corporate Governance Structure and the Chaebol System
2.2.4 Product Strategy and Profitability-The Pursuit of Flexible Scale-Diversity
2.3 A Micro Overview of Hyundai Motor's Production System After the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
2.3.1 Skill-Building in Engineers: Learning by Improvisation
2.3.2 Work Organization and Shop-Floor Workers: Flexible Automation, Skill-Saving, and Segmented Labor
2.3.3 Inter-Firm Relationships: Extended Quasi-Vertical Integration

2.3.4 Overseas Transplant Strategy: The Geographic Transfer of Hyundai Motor's Production System
References
Part II Empirical Anatomy
3 Skill Formation in Engineers-Learning by Improvisation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Crisis in the Business Environment and Construction of the Pilot Center
3.3 New Car Development and Intensive Problem-Solving Capacity
3.3.1 The Collective Skills of Engineers
3.3.2 The New Car Development Process and Intensive Problem-Solving
3.3.3 Comparison with Toyota
3.4 The Vertical Restructuring of Production Engineering