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Science 18 July 1986:
Vol. 233. no. 4761, pp. 301 - 304
DOI: 10.1126/science.233.4761.301
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Japanese Competitiveness and Japanese Management

SHIGEO MINABE 1

1 Department of Economics, Hiroshima University, Higashisenda, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730, Japan, and a research associate at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Japanese-style management and industrial policy are shown to serve as a source of industrial dynamism and are used as a way to illminate what is wrong with the American system. Japanese labor practices—specifically extra hours of unpaid work—are seen as a form of insurance fee that the worker pays in exchange for job security.

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