Top-down production management: A recent trend in the Japanese productivity-enhancement movement

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-139

  Fruin, W Mark ^a   Nakamura, Masao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 85006351327     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1468(199703)18:2<131::AID-MDE815>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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