Transferts de technologie et management de la grande entreprise au Japon : le point de vue de la business history

摘要

Abstract Without a continuous and dynamic flow of technology and management transfers into Japan, the country's industrialisation could never have succeeded. Japanese firms unquestionably showed an exceptional enthusiasm for imports of technology and management skills. If there was any resistance, it was attenuated by an acute awareness of Japan's lag behind the West and led to the conservation of certain specific Japanese practices, especially in management. Not only did no real opposition manifest itself on the part of the different agents in the work-place to theses innovations; the climate of co-operation proper to the Japanese factory or workshop actually favoured the creation of a working consensus. The result was the rapid adoption of Western management skills and practices, and even the will to do better.