| Author |
Osono, Emi, 1965-
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| Subject |
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha -- Management.
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Automobile industry and trade -- Japan -- Management.
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Total quality management.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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| Alt Name |
Shimizu, Norihiko, 1940-
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Takeuchi, Hirotaka.
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| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index. |
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Literature review (pages 257-262). |
| Summary |
By almost any measure, Toyota is a model of extreme performance among the world's best manufacturers. The company is hugely profitable, known for strong engineering, durability, and reliability, and is on track to replace GM as the world's largest automaker. This book explains what makes Toyota great and what you and your business can learn from its success. |
| Contents |
Extreme Toyota: an organization powered by creative contradictions -- Six opposing forces that drive the company's expansion--and keep it from breaking apart -- The force of impossible goals -- Eagerness to experiment -- Local customization -- The founder's philosophies -- Toyota's nerve system--a human version of the world Wide Web -- Up-and-in human resource management -- Toyota's resource base -- A company always in danger -- What your organization can learn from Toyota: ten powerful contradictions. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Note |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda |
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Print version record. |
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English. |
| ISBN |
9780470378496 (electronic bk.) |
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0470378492 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470267622 (cloth) |
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0470267623 (cloth) |
| OCLC # |
760885193 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Osono, Emi, 1965- Extreme Toyota. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2008 (DLC) 2008001404 (OCoLC)190843505 |
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