Modernization and the Japanese Factory

by Hiroshi Mannari and Robert Mortimer Marsh

Book Overview

While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691617120
• ISBN13: 9780691617121
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"