Kaizen and culture: On the transferability of Japanese suggestion systems

International Business Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-22

  Recht, Ricardo ^a   Wilderom, Celeste ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

National cultures; Organizational cultures; Suggestion systems; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039489559     PISSN: 09695931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0969-5931(97)00048-6     Document Type: Article

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