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This chapter highlights that management ideas do not exist in a vacuum. They need to be captured without losing the insights into dynamics. Such dynamics of management ideas may need to be examined by embracing vertical and horizontal factors. Such attention to vertical and horizontal factors is crucial, since the emphasis of either one over the other may fail to embrace the entire picture concerning dynamics centred on management ideas. This article focuses on such vertical and horizontal dynamics concerning agile methodologies in Japan, which tend to be associated with car manufacturing in business and management studies. The examination reveals that ‘TPS’ has provided a ‘common base’ throughout the period under investigation. The newly introduced idea of ‘agility’ has not replaced it, but has been ‘added on’.
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Endo, T., Fujiwara, M., Tsuboyama, Y. (2021). Travelling Management Ideas: Agility in Japan. In: Pfeiffer, S., Nicklich, M., Sauer, S. (eds) The Agile Imperative . Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73994-2_9
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