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Westbrook, Roy - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 12 (1995) 4, pp. 8-25

Research on quality in Japan has emphasized technical issues, but there is much to be learned from more organizational … training, and long‐term planning for quality. The research was carried out over four visits to Japan between 1989 and 1992 …. Emphasizes that there are still quality lessons to be learned from Japan. …

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Quality circle autonomy: evidence from a Japanese subsidiary and a Western subsidiary

Stavroulakis, Dimitris - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 14 (1997) 2, pp. 146-159

Asserts that the concept of quality circle autonomy includes the issues of members’ development, relations with middle managers and supervisors, determining time of meetings, evaluating suggestions, selecting discussion topics, applying solutions and electing leaders. Investigates these...

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Rationale for Productivity Increase, Quality Improvement and QC Circles

Sasaki, N. - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 1 (1984) 1, pp. 20-25

The essence of the lessons from Japanese industry are abstracted so that it is possible to relate productivity increases with quality improvement and establish the role of the QC circle.

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A Total Quality Control Programme for Dunlop Malaysia: The Key Issues

Tow Fah, Ching - In: International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management 5 (1988) 4, pp. 7-16

infrastructure in Japan is compared to that in Malaysia. It is concluded that given the right environment and conditions the Japanese …

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Market risk disclosures of banks: a cross‐country study

Savvides, Savvas C.; Savvidou, Nicoletta - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 20 (2012) 4, pp. 379-405

in ten countries of different size and geographic distribution (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands …

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Organizational virtuousness and job performance in Japan: does happiness matter?

Magnier-Watanabe, Remy; Uchida, Toru; Orsini, Philippe; … - In: International Journal of Organizational Analysis 25 (2017) 4, pp. 628-646

within Japanese firms in Japan. Findings This paper found that positive subjective well-being partially mediates the … growing realization of the importance of subjective well-being, or happiness, and the lack of academic research in Japan on …

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Analyzing FDI trends in emerging markets: Turkey vs CSEE and the Middle East

Apaydin, Marina - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 4 (2009) 1, pp. 72-97

potential. Thus, Japanese investors choose to invest in CSEE economies, which are slightly closer culturally to Japan, and …

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The stability of long‐run relationships

Batareddy, Murali; Gopalaswamy, Arun Kumar; Huang, … - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 7 (2012) 1, pp. 31-48

(India, China, South Korea, and Taiwan) and developed stock markets (USA and Japan). The study aims at adding to the … USA and Japan. …

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State corporatism and business associations in China

Unger, Jonathan; Chan, Anita - In: International Journal of Emerging Markets 10 (2015) 2, pp. 178-193

corporatism.” But with democratization, Japan’s, Taiwan’s, and South Korea’s business associations and unions came more under the …

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Kaizen in Japan: an empirical study

Paul Brunet, Adam; New, Steve - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 23 (2003) 12, pp. 1426-1446

This paper reports the study of kaizen as practised in a selection of Japanese companies. After discussing the general understanding of kaizen and proposing a clear definition, the paper describes the methodology of the study, and presents findings from the research, taking Nippon Steel...

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