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Throughout the evolution of the modern world economy, new models of productive efficiency and business organization have emerged — in Britain in the 19th century, in the US in the early (and perhaps late) 20th century, and in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. At each point, foreign observers have looked for the secrets of success and best practice, and initiatives have been taken to transmit and diffuse. This book looks in detail at ‘Americanization’ in Europe and Japan in the post-war period. The processes, ideologies, and adaptations in a number of different countries (the UK, France, Italy, Jap ... More
Keywords: Americanization, business organization, Britain, Japan, France, Italy, Sweden, Germany, corporate growth, economic growth
Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199269044 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269044.001.0001 |
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