The Death And Life Of The American Quality Movement

By Robert E. Cole

Is Total Quality Management, or TQM, a fad whose day has come and gone? Doomsayers have been predicting the demise of the American quality movement almost since its inception in the 1980s, and the...

Managing Quality Fads: How American Business Learned To Play The Quality Game

By Robert E. Cole

Can managers learn from fads? That is the question Robert Cole addresses in this insightful book about the various factors supporting and inhibiting organizational learning. A longtime student of t...

Recovering From Success: Innovation And Technology Management In Japan

By Robert E. Cole, D. H. Whittaker, D. Hugh Whittaker, D. Hugh Whittaker, Robert E. Cole

How Did Japan Fall From Challenger To Us Hegemonic Leadership In The High Tech Industries In The 1980s, To Stumbling Giant By The Turn Of The Century? This Work Examines The Challenges Faced By Jap...

Recovering From Success: Innovation And Technology Management In Japan

By Robert E. Cole, D. H. Whittaker, D. Hugh Whittaker, D. Hugh Whittaker, Robert E. Cole

How Did Japan Fall From Challenger To Us Hegemonic Leadership In The High Tech Industries In The 1980s, To Stumbling Giant By The Turn Of The Century? What Is It Doing About It? This Book Examines...

Improving Theory And Research On Quality Enhancement In Organizations: Report Of A Workshop

By National Research Council, Robert E. Cole, Division Of Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, Commission On Behavioral And Social Sciences And Education, National Research Council (US)

Japanese Blue Collar

By Cole, Robert Evan, Robert E. Cole

Examines the current state of Japanese industry in terms of the opportunities, wages, and benefits available to the blue collar worker and assesses his burgeoning strength as a social and economic...

Japanese Blue Collar: The Changing Tradition

By Robert E. Cole

Examines the current state of Japanese industry in terms of the opportunities, wages, and benefits available to the blue collar worker and assesses his burgeoning strength as a social and economic...

Work, Mobility, And Participation: A Comparative Study Of American And Japanese Industry

By Robert E. Cole, Bob Cole, Professor Of Business Administration And Sociology Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Professor Of Leadership And Communication Robert E Cole

Robert E. Cole. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [265]-286.

Work, Mobility, And Participation: A Comparative Study Of American And Japanese Industry

By Robert E. Cole, Bob Cole, Professor Of Business Administration And Sociology Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Professor Of Leadership And Communication Robert E Cole

Robert E. Cole. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [265]-286.

Strategies For Learning: Small-Group Activities In American, Japanese, And Swedish Industry

By Robert E. Cole

Robert E. Cole. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 315-325.