Remade in America : transplanting and transforming Japanese management systems

Online-Ressource (xii, 418 p)

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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