Knowledge Works

Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-508195-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Japan Business and Economics Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fruin, W. Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

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