How Japan Innovates

A Comparison With The U.s. In The Case Of Oxygen Steelmaking

Leonard L Lynn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-02005-7 (ISBN)

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The speed with which the Japanese have adopted new industrial technology has been a major factor in their economic success. This book examines in depth by comparing the introduction and use of the basic oxygen furnace (BOF)—in Japan and in the United States.

The speed with which the Japanese have adopted new industrial technology has been a major factor in their economic success, raising the question of how they have been able to carry out technological change so quickly and so smoothly, often outstripping their U.S. competitors. How Japan Innovates examines this question in depth by comparing t

Leonard H. Lynn is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has conducted extensive research in Japan on the Japanese steel industry and Japanese social structure, most recently as a Fulbright Fellow and Social Science Research Council Research Fellow. His article, “Iron and Steel Industry in Japan”, is forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Japan (Kodansha).

Westview Replica Editions -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Bof as an Evolving Solution -- Problems and Actors, Japan -- The Early Adopters, Japan -- The Late Adopters, Japan -- Problems and Actors, North America -- The BOF in North America -- Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-02005-X / 036702005X
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02005-7 / 9780367020057
Zustand	Neuware