W. Mark Fruin

ThinkersBusiness historian and organization scholar

Works

In Organizational Structures

Known for

The Japanese enterprise system.

Ideas

The Japanese enterprise system. Japan's large industrial enterprise is three levels at once, focal factories, unitary specialized firms, and interfirm networks, a system set in the inter-war years and carried into the postwar economy. Caveat: Read in the abstracts of the book and of one chapter only.

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