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

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  • Peter B. Doeringer
  • Christine Evans-Klock
  • David G. Terkla

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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.

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  • Peter B. Doeringer & Christine Evans-Klock & David G. Terkla, 1998. "Hybrids or Hodgepodges? Workplace Practices of Japanese and Domestic Startups in the United States," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 51(2), pages 171-186, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:51:y:1998:i:2:p:171-186
    DOI: 10.1177/001979399805100201
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