Jean-Jacques Chanaron & Takahiro Fujimoto 
Coping with Variety [PDF ebook] 
Flexible Productive Systems for Product Variety in the Auto Industry

First published in 1999, this book explores pint points, compares and dates the development of product differentiation and variety. This book also analyses‘ how firms have embraced a variety of ways of efficiently managing this verity though production, the design of the product as well as in the relations with the suppliers and distributors.