Abstract
Japan’s recent emergence as a global economic power has attracted international attention to the Japanese management system.1 An important question is why and how management and labor seem to have cooperated so effectively in helping Japan achieve such a status. To shed light on this question, this paper discusses certain key features of the Japanese industrial relations and training practices and sketches a theory to help understand them.
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Hashimoto, M. (1991). Training and Employment Relations in Japanese Firms. In: Stern, D., Ritzen, J.M.M. (eds) Market Failure in Training?. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76986-3_7
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