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A Viable System View of the Japanese Lean Production System
2011
We highlight the main characteristics of lean production and we analyze them using a viable-systemic perspective. Doing so we consider the lean production with its osmotic interactions with the Japanese business system and we create a framework which highlights the key relations which are essential for the viability of the system.
‘In space things touch, in time things part': James Ivory and David Lean adapting E. M. Forster's subversive aesthetics
2010
International audience; Out of E. M. Forster's six novels, five were adapted for the screen, including three by James Ivory (A Room with a View, Maurice and Howards End) and one by David Lean (A Passage to India). Each film seems to be based on the same misapprehension, forcing the text to show what it did not clearly say and concurring with Virginia Woolf's regret that Forster was too much of a materialist writer to make his point. Yet the novels should not be limited to mere historical documents on Edwardian society, since what they really put forward is, paradoxically enough, a coherent and asserted lack of both contextual and visual information: there is hardly anything to be visualized…