Synopsis
Japanese manufacturing companies were at their most productive until the year 2000. Many companies have continued to use prototypes and successor models in the management of their companies. To date, Japanese have experienced many adversities in management which are specific to Japan. The Japanese have proved their patience, good teamwork, originality and ingenuity each time. In this book, the authors present time-based measures of technology management methods to improve productivity in Japanese companies. The authors are eminent scholars and directors who have managed businesses for a long time.
About the Authors
Masanobu Kosuga is Professor Emeritus in Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. He had worked as a faculty member, in the School of Business Administration, Kwansei Gakuin University, from 1983 to 2024. He received his PhD in 1998 from Kwansei Gakuin University. He has contributed much to Japanese academic society in accounting as the Director of Japan Accounting Association (JAA), President of Japan Cost Accounting Association (JCAA), and Director of Japanese Association of Management Accounting (JAMA). His current focus is on Strategic Management Accounting.
Shufuku Hiraoka has been the Professor of Accounting, Faculty of Business administration, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan since 2007, He received his PhD in 2009 from Meiji University. and has been a president of Japan Society of Organization and Accounting (JSOA) in 2018–1019. Prof Hiraoka was also appointed as a committee member for studying the Practical Methods of Improvement on Productivity in Factories, and Administrative Departments of the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance during 1993–1995. He was also a visiting scholar of the School of Management at State University of New York in Buffalo, USA, during 2007–2008. He received an award from the Business Analysis Association in Japan for his book, The Study of Financial Metrics for Corporate and Business Valuation which was published in 2010. His current research investigates how Internal Carbon Pricing and Emission Trading Systems relate to each other.
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