Japanese management in the United States auto industry: Can it be transported? Nissan: A case study.
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Title
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Japanese management in the United States auto industry: Can it be transported? Nissan: A case study.
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Identifier
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AAI9405551
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identifier
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9405551
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Creator
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Lilleston, Judith Anne.
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Contributor
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Adviser: William Kornblum
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Date
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1993
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations | Business Administration, Management | Economics, Labor
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Abstract
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The increasing influence of Japanese firms in the United States auto industry comes as no surprise to anyone who reads the newspapers or drives the nation's highways. Within the last decade, however, a startling innovation has impacted the U.S. auto industry: The manufacturing of Japanese cars in the United States, in plants owned by Japanese firms, run by both Japanese and American management, and staffed by American labor--the Japanese transplant.;In 1981 there was one Japanese transplant in the U.S., and twenty-one point eight percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. were Japanese, manufactured in Japan. By 1990 there were eight Japanese transplants in the U.S.; twenty-nine percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. were Japanese, of that twenty-nine percent, twenty-three point nine percent were manufactured in the United States. During the eleven-year period from 1979 to 1990, the Japanese automobile industry gained more of the U.S. market share, while U.S. auto makers' share of total automobile production fell fifteen percent.;Using the Nissan assembly plant in Smyrna, Tennessee as a case study, this dissertation examines the issue of whether a foreign managerial style can be transported to the U.S. and, if so, what is the impact on the workers and the community where it is located.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
