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The introduction of the Mercedes-Benz Production System (MPS) is exemplary of a trend within the automotive industry: the creation and introduction of company-specific standardised production systems. This book contributes to the debate about production systems by examining the social and economic implications of the role of standardisation in production systems. In this context it addresses three core issues: First, the driving forces behind the changing forms and functions of standardisation and the role of institutions therein. Second, the impact of standardisation on the evolution of automotive production systems. Third, based on the author's own empirical research conducted over a three year period at the Mercedes-Benz plant Stuttgart-Untertürkheim/Germany, the book examines the influence of standardisation on the work of actors on the shop floor in terms of organisational learning processes and the regulation of work.

Automobiles --- Production engineering --- Automobile industry and trade --- Standards. --- Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft. --- Daimler Benz AG --- Mercedes-Benz AG --- Mercedes-Benz (Firm) --- Benz & Cie. --- Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (Germany) --- DaimlerChrysler --- Automotive industry --- Motor vehicle industry --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Leadership. --- Production management. --- Personnel management. --- Business Strategy/Leadership. --- Operations Management. --- Human Resource Management. --- Corporations --- Employment management --- Human resource management --- Human resources management --- Manpower utilization --- Personnel administration --- Management --- Public administration --- Employees --- Employment practices liability insurance --- Supervision of employees --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Personnel management