Team work in Japan: Revolution, evolution or no change at all?

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 475-503

  Sey, Anne ^a,b  

^a Nijmegen Business School   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automobile industry; Japan; Organization concepts; Self regulation; Team work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034358308     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X00214004     Document Type: Article

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