Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore have edited an authoritative account of the Japanese firm and the sources of its success, including contributions from some of the best, and best known, scholars in the field. The book represents an attempt to explain and understand aspects of the firm in the...

The Japanese firm as a system of attributes: a survey and research agenda / Masahiko Aoki -- Learning and incentive systems in Japanese industry / Kazuo Koike -- Different quality paradigms and their implications for organizational learning / Robert E. Cole -- Training, productivity, and quality...