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Adoptability Of Japanese Management Practices In Sri Lankan Industry, Anura De Zoysa, Siriyama Kanthi Herath Jan 2008

Adoptability Of Japanese Management Practices In Sri Lankan Industry, Anura De Zoysa, Siriyama Kanthi Herath

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The effectiveness of Japanese management practices (JMPs) is often referred to as a major reason for Japan's economic miracle. In recent years, several countries also have achieved remarkable results by adopting some JMPs in their manufacturing organisations. Through the overview of an Indian experience, this paper attempts to examine how Sri Lankan industrialists can benefit from adopting JMPs in their organisations. It is suggested that JMPs, if properly adopted, can accelerate industrial development in Sri Lanka by contributing effectively towards achieving low cost, superior quality and high productivity.


Japanese Folk Tales: Text Structure And Evaluative Expressions, Motoki Sano, Elizabeth A. Thomson Jan 2008

Japanese Folk Tales: Text Structure And Evaluative Expressions, Motoki Sano, Elizabeth A. Thomson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Hasan's approach to text structure is a semantic one. In the 1996 paper, The nursery tale as genre, she explains her approach through an analysis of nursery tales. The tale is understood within its contextual configuration using the registerial variables of field, tenor and mode. But further, it is understood as a genre in which instances of the nursery tale share common generic elements of structure, some of which are obligatory and others, optional. It is the obligatory elements of structure which define the instance as belonging to the genre of nursery tale. Within the elements of structure are semantic …