Extreme Toyota [electronic resource] : radical contradictions that drive success at the world's best manufacturer / Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi ; with John Kyle Dorton.
Series: Safari Books Onlinec2008Description: xiv, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780470267622
- 0470267623
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Title from resource description page (viewed May 28, 2009).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.
Literature review (p. 257-262).
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.
Electronic reproduction. Boston, Mass. : Safari Books Online, 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2009 maun s