German and Japanese business in the boom years : transforming American management and technology models

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German and Japanese business in the boom years : transforming American management and technology models

edited by Akira Kudo, Matthias Kipping and Harm G. Schröter

(Routledge international studies in business history, 10)

Routledge, 2004

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"This book is the result of the third Japanese-German Business History Conference, which took place on 24-25 March 2000 at the University of Tokyo"--P. [xii]

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This edited volume examines the American influence on West German and Japanese industry from the 1950s to the 1970s, providing a valuable contribution to the debate on 'Americanization' from a historical and comparative perspective. Individual contributions provide an in-depth analysis of the adoption and modification of management and technological issues from the US in West Germany and Japan at the micro-economic level.

Table of Contents

1. Americanisation: historical and conceptual issues Akira Kudo, Matthias Kipping and Harm G. Schroter2. 'Importing' American ideas to West Germany, 1940s to 1970s: from associations to private consultancies Matthias Kipping3. Paths to Americanisation in post-war Japan Satoshi Sasaki4. Driving the West German consumer society: the introduction of US-style production and marketing at Volkswagen, 1945-70 Christian Kleinschmidt5. Americanisation with the Japanese supplier system in the Japanese automobile industry, 1950-65 Hiorfumi Ueda6. The Americanisation of the German electrical industry after 1945: Siemens as a case study Wilfried Feldenkirchen7. The Americanisation and Japanisation of electronics firms in post-war Japan Shin Hasegawa8. America and the resurgence of the German chemical and rubber industry after the Second World War: Huls, Glanzstoff and Continental Christian Kleinschmidt9. The Americanisation of technologies and management in Japan and its multiple effects: the case of Toray Tsuneo Suzuki10. Reluctant Americanisation? The reaction of Henkel to the influences and competition from the United States Susanne Hilger11. Emerging post-war-type managers and their learning of American technology and management: the consumer chemicals industry and the case of Kao Akira Judo and Motoi Ihara12. 'Revolution in trade': the Americanisation of distribution in Germany during the boom years, 1949-75 Harm G. Schroter13. American influences and Japanese innovation in the distribution industry: changes of supermarket system from the 1950s until the 1970s Mika Takaoka and Takeo Kikkawa

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