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Citroën et l'innovation (1915-1996)

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: Citroën and Innovation (1915-1996), Jean-Louis Loubet. From its inception, Citroën made industrial innovation one of the centerpie- ces of its strategy. Its beginnings were marked by the introduction and then the development of OST (scientific organization of work) and Ford factory-inspired techniques in car manufacturing in France. The 1930s crisis, which hit the company very hard, led to a deep questioning of those techniques and to the possibility of creating a less rigid productive system better adapted to a tight market. And while Reconstruction scrambled the cards by making Ford techniques the one and only way for car manufacturing. Citroën continued, during the years of growth and even more with the crisis of the 1980s, to look for an alternative.

Source: Vingtième Siècle Revue d histoire

DOI: 10.3406/xxs.1998.3709

Author: Jean-Louis Loubet

Language: English

Topic: Management Theory and Practice

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1971295087

FWCI: 0.847

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