Fruin, W. Mark; Nakamura, Masao - In: Managerial and Decision Economics 18 (1997) 2, pp. 131-139
It is well known that many of the manufacturing practices advanced in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s emphasize bottom-up decision processes characterized by teams, the empowerment of multi-skilled workers on the shopfloor, demand-pull and horizontal decision mechanisms. These practices include...
