Trends in Japanese Management: Continuing Strengths, Current Problems and Changing Priorities

by Toyohiro Kono, Stewart R. Clegg, S. Clegg

The period of economic decline during the 1990s produced a wave of studies focusing on the failure of Japanese management according to western criteria. Yet Japanese manufacturing firms have continued to hold competitive power in the world market. This book identifies the institutional specificity of Japanese Management and the reasons behind its continued competitiveness. Through an exploration of the strategy and structure of Japanese manufacturing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333929705
• ISBN13: 9780333929704
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"