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One decade ago Japan was generally perceived as a model to be emulated both in terms of production methods (Womack, Jones and Roos 1990) and labour management systems (Koike 1981, Aoki 1988, Brown, Reich and Stern 1990). Economic performance was assumed to be closely related to lean production and the implementation of a high-skill, high-wage, high- productivity labour strategy. At the end of the 1980s, even Europe was expected to have recovered from its ‘Eurosclerosis’, due to the stimulus resulting from the completion of the Single Market.
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Boyer, R. (1999). Will Japanese and French “Exceptionalisms” Vanish? The Convergence Hypothesis Reconsidered. In: Dirks, D., Huchet, JF., Ribault, T. (eds) Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58257-8_27
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