Strategic Vs. Evolutionary Management: A U.S.-Japan Comparison of Strategy and Organization

by Shiori Sakamoto, Tadao Kagono, Johny K. Johansson

In this book the strengths and weaknesses of typical U.S. and Japanese companies are identified and two different models of organizational adaptations (rational-strategic and organic-evolutionary) are proposed on the basis of a quantitative comparison of the largest 1,000 firms both in the U.S. and Japan. Strategies, organizational structures and management processes of large corporations in the U.S. and Japan are compared. An intensive longitudinal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444877541
• ISBN13: 9780444877543
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: North-Holland
• Length: 340 Pages