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Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan

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Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan - Zeitlin, Jonathan (Editor), and Herrigel, Gary (Editor)
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This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and, strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often ...

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Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan 2004, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199269044

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Americanization and Its Limits: Reworking Us Technology and Management in Post-War Europe and Japan 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198295556

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