TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hosono,Akio
AU  - Hosono,Akio
AU  - Page,John
AU  - Page,John
AU  - Shimada,Go
AU  - Shimada,Go
TI  - Workers, Managers, Productivity: Kaizen in Developing Countries
SN  - 978-981-15-0364-1
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Economics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Labour economics
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Asian Economics
KW  - Corporate Structure
KW  - Development and Sustainability
KW  - Development Studies
KW  - Economy-wide Country Studies
KW  - Industrial Planning
KW  - Kaizen
KW  - Labor Economics
KW  - Management
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Sustainable Development
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as "Kaizen," and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries; compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship between workers and managers at the center of inquiry, reflecting the intent of SDG8 concerning decent work and economic growth; and it provides an overview of the heterogeneity of Kaizen in terms of geography and firm size. This book explores how improving management techniques can support firms' productivity and quality. Given its wide range of case studies from across Africa, Asia and Latin America, this book will be of value to scholars, policymakers and advocates of sustainable development alike
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39556
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/53c99317-4ec4-443c-b7f2-c73f3db48a20/2020_Book_WorkersManagersProductivity.pdf
ER  -