The Resilience of Corporate Japan: New Competitive Strategies and Personnel Practices (Human Resource Management series)

'Berggren and Nomura's lucid and intelligent book is a splendid contribution to our understanding of how Japan comes out of five years of recession with a still flourishing and heavily investing manufacturing sector and only three percent unemployment. The great merit of their analysis of this resilience is its probing detail. They show in concrete terms what surviving for a come-back meant for the shop-floor worker and his pay packet, for the production engineer and for the investment planner' - Professor Ronald Dore, author of Flexible Rigidities and Taking Japan Seriously

'The message of the book is very much that it is for the West to search its own conscience and seek to combine 'economic imperatives and social responsibilities' rather than for Japan to reverse its own priorities. This may seem somewhat over complacent, especially in the light of Japan's current drive toward deregulation and greater market flexibility. But it is a conclusion very much in keeping with the views of many Japanese businessmen and industrialists who, while recognizing the essential need to change, remain determined to hold on to the fundamentals of older social values' - Euro Japanese Journal

`Beggren and Nomura's book is an excellent study of the current stage of Japanese business practices.' - Asia Pacific Business Review