How Japan Innovates: A Comparison With The U.s. In The Case Of Oxygen Steelmaking / Edition 1

by Leonard L Lynn

Overview

This book examines the question—how Japanese have been able to carry out technological change so quickly and so smoothly—in depth by comparing the introduction of a major new industrial process—use of the basic oxygen furnace (BOF)—in Japan and in the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367169923
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 8.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Leonard H. Lynn is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. He has conducted extensive research in Japan on the Japanese steel industry and Japanese social structure, most recently as a Fulbright Fellow and Social Science Research Council Research Fellow. His article, “Iron and Steel Industry in Japan”, is forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of Japan (Kodansha).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The BOF as an Evolving Solution 3. Problems and Actors. Japan 4. Early Adopters. Japan 5. The Late Adopters, Japan 6. Problems and Actors: North America 7. The BOF in North America 8. Conclusions