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Transferts de technologie et management de la grande entreprise au Japon : le point de vue de la business history

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[eng] Abstract Without a continuous and dynamic flow of technology and management transfers into Japan, the country's industrialisation could never have succeeded. Japanese firms unquestionably showed an exceptional enthusiasm for imports of technology and management skills. If there was any resistance, it was attenuated by an acute awareness of Japan's lag behind the West and led to the conservation of certain specific Japanese practices, especially in management. Not only did no real opposition manifest itself on the part of the different agents in the work-place to theses innovations; the climate of co-operation proper to the Japanese factory or workshop actually favoured the creation of a working consensus. The result was the rapid adoption of Western management skills and practices, and even the will to do better. [fre] Résumé Sans un flux continu et dynamique de transferts de technologies et de compétences managériales, l'industrialisation japonaise n'aurait jamais pu réussir. Il est incontestable que les firmes japonaises ont manifesté un exceptionnel enthousiasme envers les importations de technologies et de compétences managériales. S'il y a eu des résistances, elles ont été atténuées par la conscience aiguë d'un retard sur l'Occident et ont conduit à la préservation de certaines pratiques spécifiquement japonaises notamment en matière de management. Non seulement n'y a pas eu de véritable opposition du monde du travail à cette introduction, mais encore un véritable consensus s'est opéré grâce au climat de coopération étroite caractérisant l'usine ou l'atelier japonais. Le résultat en a été l'adoption rapide des techniques et pratiques managériales occidentales et même la volonté de les dépasser.

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  • Akira Kudo, 2001. "Transferts de technologie et management de la grande entreprise au Japon : le point de vue de la business history," Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 20(4), pages 525-546.
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    DOI: 10.3406/hes.2001.2245
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