Japanese Industry in the American South is an anthropological case study that describes whole industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. This book searches for answers to these questions: Why are Japanese industries coming to the American South? To what extent does Japan industrial management in the American South replicate the industrial relations model used in the home plants in Japan? What are the reactions of Americans toward the Japanese expatriates? At the same time, the book looks at the profound impact that the Japanese have had on Southerners.
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I recommend this book to anyone interested in Japanese business practices . . . well worth the time.
–New Asia Review
The book illuminates important aspects of the much-heralded globalization of business through examining the complicated interaction and mutual adaptation of two different cultures both within several companies and in the broader community.... Kim raises significant issues about the role and malleability of culture in business.
–Southern Cultures
Choong Kim's study fascinates by its inside view of the interaction of Japanese industry and Tennessee culture. His case study's relevance ranges from anthropology to total quality management.
–James Peacock, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
I recommend this book to anyone interested in Japanese business practices. ... it will give the reader a taste of a Korean anthropologist's perspective.
–George B. Graen, New Asia Review
Kim debunks the myths surrounding Japanese firms and Southern workers.
–Business Library Review
–New Asia Review
The book illuminates important aspects of the much-heralded globalization of business through examining the complicated interaction and mutual adaptation of two different cultures both within several companies and in the broader community.... Kim raises significant issues about the role and malleability of culture in business.
–Southern Cultures
Choong Kim's study fascinates by its inside view of the interaction of Japanese industry and Tennessee culture. His case study's relevance ranges from anthropology to total quality management.
–James Peacock, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
I recommend this book to anyone interested in Japanese business practices. ... it will give the reader a taste of a Korean anthropologist's perspective.
–George B. Graen, New Asia Review
Kim debunks the myths surrounding Japanese firms and Southern workers.
–Business Library Review
About the Author
Choong Soon Kim is University Faculty Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee at Martin.
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Larry T. McGehee, an educator and syndicated columnist for southern newspapers, once referred to a southerner who was foiled in teaching the South to a northerner: "The effort of Quentin Compson, the young Harvard student narrator of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom, to make his Yankee roommate understand the South ended in frustration and in a commonplace declaration that 'You have to have grown up there to understand it.' " Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern industrial workers, treasures model, three grand divisions, divine treasures, southern workers, manufacturing affiliates, eleven southern states, enterprise union Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry Companies, West Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, South Carolina, East Tennessee, New York, North Carolina, American South, Department of Commerce, World War, New South, Bureau of the Census, Gary Works, Mississippi River, Spring Hill, Rutherford County, Japanese American, Old South, Scott County, Summary Social, United Kingdom, Deep South, Lamar Alexander, Pickett County New!
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Larry T. McGehee, an educator and syndicated columnist for southern newspapers, once referred to a southerner who was foiled in teaching the South to a northerner: "The effort of Quentin Compson, the young Harvard student narrator of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom, to make his Yankee roommate understand the South ended in frustration and in a commonplace declaration that 'You have to have grown up there to understand it.' " Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
southern industrial workers, treasures model, three grand divisions, divine treasures, southern workers, manufacturing affiliates, eleven southern states, enterprise union Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Henry Companies, West Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, South Carolina, East Tennessee, New York, North Carolina, American South, Department of Commerce, World War, New South, Bureau of the Census, Gary Works, Mississippi River, Spring Hill, Rutherford County, Japanese American, Old South, Scott County, Summary Social, United Kingdom, Deep South, Lamar Alexander, Pickett County New!
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- Industry Location and Public Policy by Henry W. Herzog on 5 pages
- North Carolina by Irvin S. Cobb on 5 pages
- The Interpretation Of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz on 4 pages
- White Southerners by Lewis M. Killian on page 21, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Japanese Through American Eyes by Sheila Johnson in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program by David L. McConnell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Home Away from Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States by Sawa Kurotani in Back Matter
- Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation by Ikujiro Nonaka on page 190
- Japan in the Bluegrass by P.P. Karan on page 59
- Management Laureates, Volume 6: A collection of Autobiographical Essays (Management Laureates) (Management Laureates) by John Child on page 77
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