We were burning
Subtitle: Japanese entrepreneurs and the forging of the electronic age
By: Bob Johnstone.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Electronic industries -- Japan -- History; Electronic industries -- Technological innovations -- Japan -- History
Description: Are the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Japan's miracle-working ministry of international trade and industry? Can Japanese workers, and by extrapolation their entire society, be characterized by deference to authority, devotion to group solidarity, and management by consensus?

In We Were Burning, investigative journalist Bob Johnstone demolishes this misleading stereotype by introducing us to a new and very different kind of Japanese worker - a dynamic, iconoclastic, risk-taking entrepreneur.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-403) and index.
"A Cornelia and Michael Bessie book."