How Japan Innovates: A Comparison with the U.S. in the Case of Oxygen Steelmaking

ISBN-13: 9780367020057 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Leonard L Lynn

Opis

The speed with which the Japanese have adopted new industrial technology has been a major factor in their economic success, raising the question of how they have been able to carry out technological change so quickly and so smoothly, often outstripping their U.S. competitors. How Japan Innovates examines this question in depth by comparing t

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Westview Replica Editions -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Bof as an Evolving Solution -- Problems and Actors, Japan -- The Early Adopters, Japan -- The Late Adopters, Japan -- Problems and Actors, North America -- The BOF in North America -- Conclusions

O autorze

Leonard H. Lynn is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has conducted extensive research in Japan on the Japanese steel industry and Japanese social structure, most recently as a Fulbright Fellow and Social Science Research Council Research Fellow. His article, “Iron and Steel Industry in Japan”, is forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Japan (Kodansha).