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See Dale Peter , The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1986).

Ibid., pp. 193, 199.

Ibid., p. 21.

Doi Takeo , The Anatomy of Dependence (Tokyo: Kobundo, 1971); Lebra T.S. , Japanese Patterns of Behavior (Honolulu, HI: University Press of Hawaii, 1976); and Nakane Chie , Japanese Society (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1970).

Op. cit., p. 52.

Komai Hiroshi , Japanese Management Overseas (Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 1989).

Morita Akio Ishihara Shintaro , The Japan That Can Say “No”. I am quoting from an undated English translation in typescript which began circulating among Americans interested in Japan shortly after the Japanese publication occurred in 1990.

Cited in Seward Jack Van Zandt Howard , Japan: The Hungry Guest (Tokyo: Yohan Publications, 1987), p. 89.

Ibid., p. 101.

Lincoln J.R. Kalleberg A.L. , “Work Organization and Workforce Commitment: A Study of Plants and Employees in the U.S. and Japan,” American Sociological Review, 50 (1985): 738–760.

These and the following quotes are from Morita Ishihara , op. cit.

Kobayashi Yotaro , “A Message to American Managers,” Economic Eye, 11 (Spring 1990): 11.

See Inohara Hideo , Human Resource Development in Japanese Companies (Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 1990), Chapter 2.

Onitsuka's biography is by Tanaka Hiroshi , Personality in Industry (London: Pinter Publishers, 1988).

See Yamashita T. , The Panasonic Way (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1989), p. 88.

See Sullivan Jeremiah J. , “A Critique of Theory Z,” Academy of Management Review, 8 (1983): 132–142.

Abegglen James C. Stalk G. Jr. , Kaisha, The Japanese Corporation (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1985).

Quoted in Kotkin J. Kishimoto Y. , “Theory F,” Inc., 8 (April 1986): 53–60.

See Seward Zandt Van , op. cit., p. 195.

Sullivan Jerry Snodgrass Coral , “Tolerance of Executive Failure in American and Japanese Organizations,” Asia-Pacific Journal, 8 (1991): 15–34.

Quoted in Powell Jim , The Gnomes of Tokyo (New York, NY: American Management Association, 1988), p. 32.

This work was done with Professors Teruhiko Suzuki and Yasumasu Kondo of Doshisha University in Kyoto.

Quoted in Shook Robert L. , Honda, An American Success Story (New York, NY: Prentice Hall Press, 1988), p. 13.