Agile Methods on the Shop Floor: Towards a "Tesla Production System"?

Daum, Timo

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dc.contributor.author	Daum, Timo	de
dc.date.accessioned	2022-12-20T14:33:33Z
dc.date.available	2022-12-20T14:33:33Z
dc.date.issued	2022	de
dc.identifier.issn	2748-5587	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/83506
dc.description.abstract	This discussion paper investigates two questions: To what extend can Tesla be regarded as a digital firm, and do we - as a result - see elements of a distinct "Tesla production system"? While the EV-startup is widely approached as a competing automaker focusing on the electric drive train, which it certainly is, this paper argues that it can only fully be understood as a digital firm - a digital car company with a digital product embedded in a digital ecosystem. Its roots in Silicon Valley, its software-first approach, and its strategic exploitation of user activity data point into this direction. In the second part, this paper explores to what extent Tesla's rootedness in software and its Silicon-Valley ancestry gave reason to introduce methods borrowed from software development on the shop floor. To a certain degree, concepts from agile software development found their way to the very assembly-line at Tesla. Although it might be exaggerated to speak of a distinct "Tesla Production system", indications for a considerable and possibly enduring alteration of Lean Production paradigm can be determined.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Wirtschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Economics	en
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.other	Agile Methods; Shop Floor; Tesla	de
dc.title	Agile Methods on the Shop Floor: Towards a "Tesla Production System"?	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet	de
dc.description.review	reviewed	en
dc.source.volume	31	de
dc.publisher.country	DEU	de
dc.publisher.city	Berlin	de
dc.source.series	Weizenbaum Series
dc.subject.classoz	Produktion, Fertigung	de
dc.subject.classoz	Manufacturing	en
dc.subject.classoz	Wissenschaftssoziologie, Wissenschaftsforschung, Technikforschung, Techniksoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology	en
dc.subject.thesoz	production	en
dc.subject.thesoz	digitalization	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Elektrofahrzeug	de
dc.subject.thesoz	electric vehicle	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Produktion	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Software	de
dc.subject.thesoz	manufacturing	en
dc.subject.thesoz	software	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Fertigung	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society	de
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	monograph	de
dc.type.document	Arbeitspapier	de
dc.type.document	working paper	en
dc.source.pageinfo	25	de
internal.identifier.classoz	10220
internal.identifier.classoz	1090404
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dc.contributor.corporateeditor	Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute
internal.identifier.corporateeditor	1095
internal.identifier.ddc	330
internal.identifier.ddc	301
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WS/31	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Erstveröffentlichung	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Primary Publication	en
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internal.identifier.review	2
internal.identifier.series	1488
dc.subject.classhort	20100	de
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ssoar.licence.fund	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII121, 16DII122, 16DII123, 16DII124, 16DII125, 16DII126, 16DII127, 16DII128 - "Deutsches Internet-Institut") and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany (BMAS)

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