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Remade in America : transplanting and transforming Japanese management systems / edited by Jeffrey K. Liker, W. Mark Fruin, Paul S. Adler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Japan business and economics series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Japan business and economics series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial management--Japan--Case studies.
- Industrial management.
- Industrial management--United States--Case studies.
- Technology transfer--Japan--Case studies.
- Technology transfer.
- Technology transfer--United States--Case studies.
- Comparative management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the 1980s, Japanese firms have challenged US dominance in many manufacturing industries; increasingly in the form of transplant operations. This text offers case studies and surveys to explain the process of transferring and transforming the best Japanese Management Systems (JMS).
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; 1 Bringing Japanese Management Systems to the United States: Transplantation or Transformation?; 2 Transferring Competitive Advantage across Borders: A Study of Japanese Auto Transplants in North America; 3 Hybridization: Human Resource Management at Two Toyota Transplants; 4 Recontextualization and Factory-to-Factory Knowledge Transfer from Japan to the United States: The Case of NSK; 5 Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production through the Supply Chain; 6 Japanese Quality Technology: Transferred and Transformed at Hewlett-Packard
- 7 Site-Specific Organization Learning in International Technology Transfer: Example from Toshiba8 Transplantation? A Comparison of Japanese Television Assembly Plants in Japan and the United States; 9 Using Expatriate Supervisors to Promote Cross-Border Management Practice Transfer: The Experience of a Japanese Electronics Company; 10 Work System Innovation among Japanese Transplants in the United States; 11 Just-In-Time and Other Manufacturing Practices: Implications for U.S. Manufacturing Performance
- 12 Organization Theory Perspectives on the Cross-Border Transfer of Organizational PatternsIndex
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-770359-3
- 1-280-47106-9
- 1-4237-3900-0
- 0-19-535346-3
- 1-60256-254-7
- OCLC:
- 475957068
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