Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba (Japan Business and Economics Series) - Hardcover

Fruin, W. Mark

 
9780195081954: Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba (Japan Business and Economics Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195081951 ISBN 13: 9780195081954
Publisher: OUP USA, 1997

Synopsis

This book offers a close-up look at a factory in Japan that is typical of what the author calls `Knowledge Works'. Like so many Japanese factories, this one - the Yanagicho works of the Toshiba Corporation - is highly productive, efficient, and flexible. While the factory is ordinary looking on the outside, its workers are anything but ordinary as they strive to improve the way they work and the quality of the products they produce. The key to this is the continuous creation and application of knowledge throughout the factory, from workers on the shop floor, to research and development engineers, to top management. The author explains how Japanese culture and religion prepare workers for their role in this process of creating and disseminating knowledge.

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About the Author

Mark Fruin is Professor of Strategy and Management at INSEAD, France. He is the author of the Japanese Enterprise System (OUP, 1992).

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195081951
ISBN 13 
9780195081954
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288