The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive Strength

Author:   Masahiko Aoki (Professor, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan, and Stanford University, USA) ,  Ronald Dore (Professor, Professor, London School of Economics, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780198292159


Pages:   424
Publication Date:   05 September 1996
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Masahiko Aoki (Professor, Professor, Kyoto University, Japan, and Stanford University, USA) ,  Ronald Dore (Professor, Professor, London School of Economics, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9780198292159


ISBN 10:   0198292155
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   05 September 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"The Japanese firm as a system of attributes, Aoki; learning and incentive systems in Japanese industry, Koike; different quality paradigms and their implications for organizational learning, Cole; training, productivity and quality control in Japanese multinational companies, Sako; co-ordination between production and distribution in a globalizing network of firms, Asanuma; the evolution of Japan's industrial research and development, Westney; R&D organization in Japanese and American semi-condutor firms, Okimoto and Nishi; SME's, entry barriers, and ""strategic alliances"", Whittaker; Japanese human resource management for the viewpoint of incentive theory, Itoh; co-ordination, specialization, and incentives in product development organization, Itoh; the economic role of corporate grouping and the main bank system, Hoshi; interlocking shareholdings and corporate governance in Japan; the Japanese firm under the wartime planned economy, Okazaki; equality-efficiency trade-offs - Japanese perceptions and choices, Dore"

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Contributions are incisive, original, and informed, all authors being established scholars....should be required reading in schools of management. --Choice<br> This book is a well-balanced collection of state-of-the-art research results on the postwar Japanese firm. --Journal of comparative Economics<br> Probably no two scholars have done more to elucidate important features of the Japanese business system than Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore. --Journal of Japanese Studies<br>


<br> Contributions are incisive, original, and informed, all authors being established scholars....should be required reading in schools of management. --Choice<p><br> This book is a well-balanced collection of state-of-the-art research results on the postwar Japanese firm. --Journal of comparative Economics<p><br> Probably no two scholars have done more to elucidate important features of the Japanese business system than Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore. --Journal of Japanese Studies<p><br>


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