1st Edition
Japanese Industrial Transplants in the United States Organizational Practices and Relations of Power
By Atsushi Sumi
Copyright 1999
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1998. This book examines the transferability of Japanese organizational practices to Japanese owned industrial transplants in the United States, and demonstrates that relations of power and conflict on the corporate structural level are equally as significant as the social and cultural differences between American and Japanese practices in the workplace. The research is based... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1: Problem and Literature Chapter 2: Fieldwork in the Organizational Context Chapter 3: Organizational Practices Transferred to the U.S.— The Midwest Chapter 4: Organizational Practices Transferred to the U.S.—California Chapter 5: Organizational Practices Transferred to the U.S.— The Case Study Company, Suntech America Chapter 6: American and Japanese Interaction at the Workplace—Manufacturing Department, Suntech America Chapter 7: American and Japanese Interaction at the Workplace—Repair Department, Suntech America Chapter 8: Conclusion
Biography
Atsushi Sumi
