The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (Harvard East Asian Monographs) [Hardcover]

Michael Cusumano (Author)

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Cusumano's work ("a modest revision of a doctoral thesis") delineates and analyzes the development of the Japanese car industry by focusing on Nissan and Toyota. It is quite detailed, with a substantial amount of data presented in tabular form. The author considers various aspects of the industry: labor relations, manufacturing, quality control, and production management. He discusses, as well, the roles that managerial and technical skill, governmental policy, and timing have played in the success of the industry. This is a book for a sophisticated readership. Recommended for academic, larger public, and appropriate business libraries. Stuart Gudowitz, George Washington Univ. Lib.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center (January 30, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0674472551
• ISBN-13: 978-0674472556
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,455,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, with a joint appointment in MIT's Engineering Systems Division. His research focuses on technology management and strategy, especially in the software business. He received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in production and operations management at the Harvard Business School. He has been a Fulbright Fellow and a Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo. In 2009, he delivered the 13th annual Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies at Oxford University and was named one of the most influential people in technology and IT by Silicon.com. Professor Cusumano is a director of a leading Indian IT services company, Patni Computer Systems (NYSE: PTI, www.patni.com), and of an interactive voice communications provider, Eliza Corporation (www.elizacorporation.com). He is also an advisor to FixStars Corp. (www.fixstars.com), which builds high-performance computing applications for clusters of Sony Playstation consoles and other multi-core processor blade servers; and Buzzient (www.buzzient.com), a social media analytics and integration firm. He is the author or co-author of 8 books, including The Business of Software (2004), Platform Leadership (2002), Competing on Internet Time (1998), and Microsoft Secrets (1995).

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This review is from: The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Paperback)

This is a "Must Read" if you are a serious student of 'Lean Manufacturing'. The book concentrates on factural information, not the myth building stories seen in so many other books on TPS.
A serious history of the Japanese auto industry, not just about Toyota.