Hybrids or Hodgepodges? Workplace Practices of Japanese and Domestic Startups in the United States

Peter Doeringer (), Christine Evans-Klock and David G. Terkla

ILR Review, 1998, vol. 51, issue 2, 171-186

Abstract: This study examines the adoption of high-performance workplace management practices in Japanese and domestic manufacturing plants, spanning a broad range of products and technologies, that began operations in the United States between 1978 and 1988. Japanese transplants, the authors find, were likely to adopt “hybrid†systems of high-performance practices melding Japanese principles of workplace management with the American industrial relations system. Domestic startups incorporated many of these same techniques, but they tended to take a more limited and piecemeal approach. The managers of domestic startups also paid less attention to how individual high-performance practices fit into an overall system of efficient workplace management than did managers at Japanese transplants.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1177/001979399805100201

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