Klappentext: Though Japan has successfully competed with U.S. companies in the manufacturing and marketing of computer hardware, it has been less successful in developing computer programs. This book contains the first detailed analysis of how Japanese firms have tried to redress this imbalance...

Rezension: Cusumano's work ("a modest revision of a doctoral thesis") delineates and analyzes the development of the Japanese car industry by focusing on Nissan and Toyota. It is quite detailed, with a substantial amount of data presented in tabular form. The author considers various aspects of...