Overview
- Provides empirical evidence of the benefits and challenges of Kaizen management practices
- Reflects on cultural and sustainability issues of Kaizen
- Highlights successes and failures in Africa to date, particularly looking at the cases of Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Botswana
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Kaizen management
- African industrial development
- African economic development
- Labour-intensive manufacturing industries
- Technical Cooperation
- ISO System
- Industrial development policy
- Economic transformation in African countries
- International development cooperation
- Productivity
- Open access
- Kaizen and technology
- Overseas Development Cooperation
- Ethiopian Kaizen
- Foreign Direct Investment
About this book
At present, how to develop industries is a burning issue in Africa, where population growth remains high and economic development has thus far failed to provide sufficient jobs for many, especially young people and women. The creation of productive jobs through industrial development ought to be a central issue in steering economic activity across the continent.
The authors of this book, consisting of two development economists and five practitioners, argue that the adoption of Kaizen management practices, which originated in Japan and have become widely used by manufacturers in advanced and emerging economies, is decisively the most effective first step for industrial development in Africa.
This open access book discusses what Kaizen management is, why it is applicable to Africa, and why it can provide Africa with a springboard for sustainable economic growth and employment generation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Keijiro Otsuka is Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, Japan, and Chief Senior Researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan.
Kimiaki Jin is Senior Assistant Director of the Industrial Development and Public Policy Department at the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan.
Tetsushi Sonobe is Vice President and Chair of the PhD Program Committee, Director of the GRIPS Global Governance Program and Professor of Development Economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applying the Kaizen in Africa
Book Subtitle: A New Avenue for Industrial Development
Editors: Keijiro Otsuka, Kimiaki Jin, Tetsushi Sonobe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91400-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91399-5Published: 31 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08243-7Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91400-8Published: 22 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 266
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Development Economics, African Economics, Labor Economics