Goals Of Japan During The Meiji Period

[pic] JAPAN LAND OF THE RISING SUN 日本 International Business Culture 2010 Introduction “Along the paddy field were a bamboo and oak. Oak, millennium, was robust and majestic. At his side, bamboo seemed puny. Suddenly a very violent wind arose. Oak resisted and resisted, but be uprooted. By cons bamboo, bent over and once the wind got up, he could get back the original position. It was now the sole inhabitant of the paddy field, and had never been so majestic. " Zen Japanese

Ben and Jerry Case : The ice cream company Ben and Jerry has been created in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Since the beginning the two Brooklyn school mates have decided that the company would be social responsible and would have an objective of “caring capitalism”. The ice cream produced (and still produce) by the company were very rich and dense and those characteristics explained that the Ben and Jerry have been classified from the beginning as “super-premium

- 60 - Table des Figures Figure 1. Financial data and supplier organizations of four major Japanese automotive manufacturers in 1996 34 Figure 2. Toyota Group Information 41 Figure 3. Toyota: 6 steps for developing deep partnership 44 Figure 4. Outstanding performance award of Toyota’s supplier Johnson Controls 46 Figure 5. Example of a lean map of process 53 RÉSUMÉ Dans l'industrie

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