Transplanting manufacturing power: Observations from five years at Fujitsu

Author

Steven M. MILLER, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1995

Abstract

Within a factory, what are the underpinnings of manufacturing power? During my thirty-month residency at Fujitsu's factory in Oyama, Japan, I constantly reflected on this question. The standard view of a factory structure provided by an organization chart was inadequate for summarizing my observations.

Keywords

Manufacturing characteristics, Japan, Fujitsu, factory organization, organizational structures

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Management Information Systems | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Understanding Japan: Business, culture, technology

First Page

30

Last Page

45

Identifier

10.1184/R1/27625398.v1

Publisher

Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration

City or Country

Pittsburgh, PA

Embargo Period

1-1-2025

Citation

MILLER, Steven M.. Transplanting manufacturing power: Observations from five years at Fujitsu. (1995). Understanding Japan: Business, culture, technology. 30-45.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9865

Copyright Owner and License

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Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/27625398.v1