{"product_id":"hybrid-factory","title":"Hybrid Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Japanese automotive and electronics firms have expanded their operations into the United States more attention has been focused on Japanese management and manufacturing. In Hybrid Factory a team of Japanese and American scholars explores the potential for the effective transfer of Japanese management and production systems that have been credited with giving Japanese firms their competitive superiority to a much different national culture. The book looks\n\u003cbr\u003ein particular at which management factors, that provide strength to Japanese production systems, can survive the transfer to the United States or whether the radically different social and cultural environment\n\u003cbr\u003emakes such a transfer impossible.  Contributors:     Tetsuo Abo, University of Tokyo    Hiroshi Itagaki, Saitama University    Duane Kujawa, University of Miami    Kunio Kamiyama, Josai University    Hiroshi Kumon, Hosei University    Tetsuji Kawamura, Teikyo University    Mira Wilkins, Florida International University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156752724206,"sku":"9780195079746","price":473.17,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/hybrid-factory","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}