Strategic Networks
Subtitle: The Art of Japanese Interfirm Cooperation
Publisher: Haworth Press; International Business Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780789007254
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; Cooperatives (Industrial Economics); Corporations; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Entrepreneurship; Industries - General; Interorganizational relations; Japan
First sentence: Since the 1980s, certain management concepts are quoted in an ever-growing literature as being central for the success of Japanese companies: Total quality control (TQC), just-in-time concepts (JIT), continuing improvement processes (CIP), lean management and most recently, reengineering.
Description: "Unknown to many, several of the management concepts that made Japanese companies successful in the 1980s, such as total quality control (TQC) and continuing improvement processes (CIP), were only a part of the formula for a successful business.

This book discusses types of Japanese strategic networks, another element of Japan's thriving business structure of today, how they are influenced by Japanese cultural values and state interventions, and why all of the businesses involved are benefiting from these networks."--BOOK JACKET.