Japanese manufacturing methods have been transforming the American electronics and automobile industries. This book examines the process by which Japanese manufacturers are importing these methods, including \"lean manufacturing,\" to their operations in the United States....

This volume explores the wide diversity in the kinds of networks that have been established between firms in Japan and the Pacific Rim. Editor W. Mark Fruin shows how networks in Japan and Korea are more prescribed and standardized than those found in the United States....

This book describes why, for the past twenty-five years, Japanese productivity has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the U.S. Unlike other books on the subject of the Japanese success in manufacturing, it looks at what actually happens in factories....

This work merges inquiry and interpretation in a study of the evolution and emergence of Japan\'s leading industrial firms in the twentieth century. It combines historical and organizational analyses with development and strategy studies....