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Article: The work ethic, Luddites and Taylorism in Japanese management literature. (Management Improvement Opportunities)
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- Industrial Management
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- November 1, 1992
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A number of recent themes have appeared in Japanese texts relating to aspects of American and western technological and cultural history. These comments may provide some insight into the differences between the U.S. and Japan in the direction of technological growth. The author is providing his understandings of comments written by an interpreter from Japanese to English about another's understanding of historical events that have been previously translated into Japanese.
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