Contributors
1: Jeffrey K. Liker, W. Mark Fruin, and Paul S. Adler: Bringing
Japanese Management Systems to the United States: Transplantation
or Transformation?
Part I. Automotive and Automotive Parts
2: Frits K. Pil and John Paul MacDuffie: Transferring Competitive
Advantage across Borders: A Study of Japanese Auto Transplants in
North America
3: Paul S. Adler: Hybridization: Human Resource Management at Two
Toyota Transplants
4: Mary Yoko Brannen, Jeffrey K. Liker, and W. Mark Fruin:
Recontextualization and Factory-to-Factory Knowledge Transfer from
Japan to the United States: The Case of NSK
5: John Paul MacDuffie and Susan Helper: Creating Lean Suppliers:
Diffusing Lean Production through the Supply Chain
Part II. Electronics and Related Products
6: Robert E. Cole: Japanese Quality Technology: Transferred and
Transformed at Hewlett-Packard
7: W. Mark Fruin: Site-Specific Organization Learning in
International Technology Transfer: Example from Toshiba
8: Martin Kenney: Transplantation? A Comparison of Japanese
Television Assembly Plants in Japan and the United States
9: Mark F. Peterson, T.K. Peng, and Peter B. Smith: Using
Expatriate Supervisors to Promote Cross-Border Management Practice
Transfer: The Experience of a Japanese Electronics Company
Part III. Surveys across Industries
10: Davis Jenkins and Richard Florida: Work System Innovation among
Japanese Transplants in the United States
11: Masao Nakamura, Sadao Sakakibara, and Roger G. Schroeder:
Just-in-Time and Other Manufacturing Practices: Implications for
U.S. Manufacturing Performance
12: D. Eleanor Westney: Organization Theory Perspectives on the
Cross-Border Transfer of Organizational Patterns
Index
Jeffrey Liker is Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations
Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Mark Fruin is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Business
Administration at Keio University and Visiting Professor of
Corporate Strategy and Technology Management in the College of
Business at San Jose State University.
Paul Adler is Associate Professor of Management at the University
of Southern California.
"This book will appeal strongly to several types of audiences. The
authors have done an exceptional job of putting flesh on the bones
of theoretical constructs. Remade in America belongs in the library
of anyone studying or working in or around transplant
operations."--Academy of Management Executive
"This book will appeal strongly to several types of audiences. The
authors have done an exceptional job of putting flesh on the bones
of theoretical constructs. Remade in America belongs in the library
of anyone studying or working in or around transplant
operations."--Academy of Management Executive
"Most appropriate for comprehensive graduate and research
collections on Japanese management."--Choice
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