Japanese manufacturing: Strategy and practice
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Japanese Manufacturing : Strategy and Practice
A striking characteristic of Japanese factories is the extent of process control: from both the technical and the social viewpoint the labour and production system is controlled down to the very last detail. The characteristics of management and organization which underlie this are closely interwoven with Japanese culture. This explains why the work content. working conditions and working relat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Long Range Planning
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0024-6301
DOI: 10.1016/0024-6301(87)90029-x