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How Japan Innovates A Comparison With The U.s. In The Case Of Oxygen Steelmaking
This book examines the question—how Japanese have been able to carry out technological change so quickly and so smoothly—in depth by comparing the introduction of a major new industrial process—use of the basic oxygen furnace (BOF)—in Japan and in the United States.
Biography
Leonard H. Lynn is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has conducted extensive research in Japan on the Japanese steel industry and Japanese social structure, most recently as a Fulbright Fellow and Social Science Research Council Research Fellow. His article, “Iron and Steel Industry in Japan”, is forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Japan (Kodansha).
