Publication subTitle :Modernization and the Japanese Factory
Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library
Author: Marsh Robert Mortimer;Mannari Hiroshi;;
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication year: 2015
E-ISBN: 9781400870271
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691093659
Subject: F2 Economic Planning and Management;TB General Industrial Technology
Keyword: 一般工业技术,经济计划与管理
Language: ENG
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Description
While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction.
The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction.
Originally published in 1976.
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