Michael J Smitka

Biographic Data

ID982559
NAMEMichael J Smitka
GIVEN NAMESMichael J
FAMILY NAMESmitka
SIGNATURESMITKA M J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX0

  • Japanese Exports and Foreign Direct Investment: Imperfect Competition in International Markets (review)

    Michael Smitka, Michael J SmitkaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2009

  • Knowledge Works: Managing Intellectual Capital at Toshiba

    Michael Smitka, Michael J Smitka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1999

    This book offers a close-up look at a factory in Japan that is typical of what the author calls 'Knowledge Works'. Like so many Japanese factories, this one - the Yanagicho works of the Toshiba Corporation - is highly productive, efficient, and flexible. While the factory is ordinary looking on the outside, its workers are anything but ordinary as they strive to improve the way they work and the quality of the products they produce. The key to th…

  • Japan Works: Power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations

    Michael J Smitka, Justin Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1999

    The postwar miracle, says John Price, made Japan and its corporations the toast of the global village, with scholars across the United States pointing to Japan as the model for future enterprise. The economic bubble burst, however, in 1989, and Price documents difficulties that have surfaced since that time. In Japan itself, the common self-assessment is rich country, poor people and government reports regularly criticize society for being too en…

  • Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U.S

    Michael Smitka, Michael J SmitkaREVIEWJournal of Japanese Studies1995

    During the 1980s and continuing into the 1990s, more than 1,000 Japanese firms established 'transplant' manufacturing operations in the US. Many of these have been in mature industries like steel and automobiles, but many have also been in high technology industries as well. The success of these ventures is the result of the sweeping revolution in the organization of technology, work, and production that lies at the heart of the Japanese model of…

  • The Nissan Enigma: Flexibility at Work in a Local Economy

    Michael Smitka, Michael J Smitka et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • Enterprise Unionism in Japan

    Michael J Smitka, Hirosuke Kawanishi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • Competitive Ties: Subcontracting in the Japanese Automotive Industry

    Richard F Doner, Michael Smitka et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1992

  • The era of high-speed growth: Notes on the postwar Japanese economy

    Michael Smitka, Michael J SmitkaARTICLEHistory of Political Economy1988

    Other| September 01 1988 The era of high-speed growth: notes on the postwar Japanese economy Yu-taka Kosai. The era of high-speed growth: notes on the postwar Japanese economy. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 223, bibliography, index. ¥3800, cloth. Distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press, $22.50. (Original Japanese language edition, 1981.) Michael J. Smitka Michael J. Smitka Search for other works by this author on: …