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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to put modern history of theme park developments in Japan in perspective and … identify the challenges associated with theme parks in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – Amid the structural lack of theme … parks in Japan, where most, if any, of the available data are in Japanese only. This precluded the authors to conduct …
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China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Design/methodology/approach – This study … countries, with the exception of Japan and to some extent, South Korea. Originality/value – In this respect, the trade spillover … effects had transferred technology and developed human capital skills to a greater extent in the cases of Japan and Republic …
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Reports on Japan, a country in which the falling birth rate gives marketers some interesting opportunities. Explores … emails, and indicates the problems and advantages involved in the desire for this fashion accessory. Outlines how Japan …
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Discusses aspects of the Japanese economic miracle, where industry and business are seen as superior in quality. Argues, briefly, that Westerners fail to understand Japanese business behaviour because they do not realize that the Japanese are not constrained by Western concepts, but are bound by...
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it has been widely used in Japan as the first step towards TQM in both the manufacturing and services industries. Also …
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Points out that we have accepted on faith many of our improvement tools without really understanding their impact on the performance of the organization. Challenges some of the basic principles on which total quality management was founded. Presents data from the International Quality Study...
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Japanese firms which long ago realized the importance of product quality have, over the last decade, been focusing on the broader issue of management quality as a way of increasing market share and profits. Management quality has traditionally been difficult to judge, and systematic ways of...
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Argues that the management of quality in the construction industry is often flawed by people‐related problems. Suggests that there is tremendous scope for applying Miyamoto Musashi’s lessons in A Book of Five Rings for overcoming some of these problems and for managing construction quality....
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The essential steps of “ hoshin kanri ”, or policy management, in Japanese companies are described. They are annual policy and medium‐ to long‐term policy, basic company philosophy and quality policy, converting methodological policy into objective policy, the composition of policy, two...
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