We were burning : Japanese entrepreneurs and the forging of the electronic age / Bob Johnstone.

Author
Johnstone, Bob [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[New York] : Basic Books, 1999.
Description
xxiii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Summary note
    "Are the Japanese faceless clones who march in lockstep to the drums beaten by big business and the bureaucrats of MITI, Japan's miracle-working ministry of international trade and industry? Can Japanese workers, and by extrapolation their entire society, be characterized by deference to authority, devotion to group solidarity, and management by consensus? In We Were Burning, investigative journalist Bob Johnstone demolishes this misleading stereotype by introducing us to a new and very different kind of Japanese worker - a dynamic, iconoclastic, risk-taking entrepreneur."--Jacket.
    Notes
    "A Cornelia and Michael Bessie book."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-403) and index.
    Contents
    • Calculators & watches
    • Camcorders & synthesizers
    • CD players & printers; cars & lights.
    ISBN
    • 0465091172 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780465091171 ((alk. paper))
    • 0465091180
    • 9780465091188
    LCCN
    98041188
    OCLC
    39700198
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