The Japanese Industrial System.

Intro -- Preface to the Third Edition -- I The Japanese Industrial System -- Chapter 1. Japan and the New Global Economy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Japan as Industrial Superpower -- 1.3 Paradoxes of Asian Growth -- 1.4 Japan as Learner and Teacher -- 1.5 From Follower to Leader -- 1.6 Strategies for the 21st Century -- 1.7 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 2. Samurai Management: A Framework for Analysis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Japanese Society: Adversity Management -- 2.3 Hardware and Software as Core Concepts -- 2.4 Japanese Hardware: A Comparative Perspective -- 2.5 Organizational Software Systems -- 2.6 Summary and Conclusions -- II Japan's Societal Policies -- Chapter 3. Japan Inc.: Business-Government Relations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Social Origins of Business-Government -- 3.3 The Structure of Modern Government -- 3.4 Government and Big Business -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 4. The Visible Hand: Industrial Planning -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Origins of Industrial Planning -- 4.3 Japan's Five Year Plan -- 4.4 Industrial Structure Goals -- 4.5 Resource Dependence Planning -- 4.6 Portfolio Approach to Sectors -- 4.7 Japan's Export Strategy -- 4.8 Japan's Sunset Industries -- 4.9 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5. Technology and the Knowledge Economy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Technology and the Economy -- 5.3 The Organization of Science in Japan -- 5.4 Formulating Science Policy -- 5.5 Technological Diffusion -- 5.6 Creative Technology Policies -- 5.7 Technology Policy in Comparative Perspective -- 5.8 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Asian Wall Street: Japanese Banking and Finance -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Financial Policy and Economic Development -- 6.3 Japan's Banking System: An Overview -- 6.4 From Competition Within Japan -- 6.5 ... to Tomorrow, the World -- 6.6 Summary and Conclusions.

III The Corporate System -- Chapter 7. Samurai Education and Management Recruitment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Education and the Meiji Legacy -- 7.3 The Post-War Reforms -- 7.4 Social Origins of the Managerial Elite -- 7.5 Japanese Management Education -- 7.6 Elite Exclusion: Women in Japan -- 7.7 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 8. Management Strategy and Organization -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Strategy and Structure in Context -- 8.3 The Enterprise Union -- 8.4 Software Management Systems -- 8.5 Quality Control Circles -- 8.6 Organizational Design Issues -- 8.7 Time Horizons -- 8.8 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 9. Human Resource Strategies and Work -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Two Models of Labour-Management -- 9.3 Type A: North America -- 9.4 Type B: Japan -- 9.5 Applying Software Techniques -- 9.6 Organizational Demographics -- 9.7 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 10. Production and Operations Management -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Origins of Production Strategy -- 10.3 Progress Cost Curves -- 10.4 Kanban Inventory System -- 10.5 Kanban in Practice -- 10.6 Robotics -- 10.7 Summary and Conclusions -- IV Japan and the World Economy -- Chapter 11. Japanese Marketing: From Sogo Shosha to the Big Mac -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Trading Firms: Concepts and Definitions -- 11.3 Sogo Shosha in Practice -- 11.4 Trading Firms and Japanese Distribution -- 11.5 Japan's New Service Economy -- 11.6 JIT Marketing: The Retailing Revolution -- 11.7 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 12. The Acid Test: Japanese Management Abroad -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Japanese Investment: Past Trends -- 12.3 Overseas Investment: New Directions -- 12.4 Japanese Multinationals -- 12.5 Exports vs. FDI: U.S.-Japan Comparisons -- 12.6 Transferring Japanese Software Management -- 12.7 Japan's Joint Venture Alternative -- 12.8 Summary and Conclusions.

Chapter 13. The Globalization of Japan -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Are the Japanese too Efficient? -- 13.3 Guns and Butter: Japanese Defence Issues -- 13.4 Pacific Rim and Pacific Century? -- 13.5 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 14. Samurai Duel: Learning from Japan -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Japan as Teacher -- 14.3 New Trade Patterns -- 14.4 Management Changes -- 14.5 A Final Word -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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