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Cole: Strategies For Learning: Small–group Activities In American, Japanes & Swedeish Industry (cloth): Small-Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry - Hardcover

Cole, R E

 
9780520065413: Cole: Strategies For Learning: Small–group Activities In American, Japanes & Swedeish Industry (cloth): Small-Group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry

Synopsis

How do firms become motivated to adopt small-group activities such as quality circles and self-managing teams? How do they acquire expertise in these activities? Noted sociologist and management expert Robert E. Cole addresses these issues through an examination of small-group activities in the United States, Japan and Sweden during the past twenty-five years.

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Review

"Cole's book is an important contribution to a burgeoning literature on employee participation. The book presents subtle lessons about the varying degrees of success in international competition of the Japanese and American economies since 1960."--Donald M. Peppard, Jr., "Journal of Asian Studies

About the Author

Robert E. Cole is Professor of Sociology and Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley.

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