1st Edition

Easternization The Spread of Japanese Management Techniques to Developing Countries

By Raphael Kaplinsky, Anne Posthuma Copyright 1994
344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

Japanese industry has shown its superiority in a range of traded goods sectors. It was thought that this competitive advantage arose from the use of electronics-based flexible automation technologies, but it is now clear that the major source of this industrial strength is in the development and diffusion of new management techniques such as just-in-time production and total quality... Read more
Business History, Vol 2, No 3, 1996 (same review also appeared in Asia-Pacific Business Review)

"Provides a range of information, international and comparative in its dimensions, which would otherwise be hard to obtain.

Biography

Kaplinsky, Raphael; Posthuma, Anne