Overview
- Explores how Japanese management techniques might be exported
- Offers insights into non-Western developmental aid to developing countries
- Provides unique insights into how governments, entrepreneurs, and foreign aid can effectively come together in the developing world
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introducing and Implementing Kaizen
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The Effectiveness of Kaizen in Large Companies
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Effectiveness of Kaizen for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
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About this book
This book explores how improving management techniques can support firms’ productivity and quality. Given its wide range of case studies from across Africa, Asia and Latin America, this book will be of value to scholars, policymakers and advocates of sustainable development alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and has held positions at Princeton University, USA, the World Bank, Oxford University, UK, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
Go Shimada is an Associate Professor of Meiji University and a visiting scholar at the JICA Research Institute. He holds a PhD from Waseda University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Workers, Managers, Productivity
Book Subtitle: Kaizen in Developing Countries
Editors: Akio Hosono, John Page, Go Shimada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0364-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0363-4Published: 15 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0366-5Published: 07 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0364-1Published: 14 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 327
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Economics, Development and Sustainability, Labor Economics