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Carol Gill

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The Impact Of Japanese Culture On Inter And Intra Organization Supply Chains, Carol Gill Dec 2010

The Impact Of Japanese Culture On Inter And Intra Organization Supply Chains, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

This paper examines the relationship between national culture, organizational culture and supply chain performance in the Japanese Automotive Industry. To do this it compares and contrasts organization behavior and performance at Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi. It concludes that whilst extant theory predicts at the national etic level that the Japanese collectivist culture would have high performing internal supply chains that the reverse can occur at the organizational emic level without intervention. It also finds that national culture shapes leadership style which had an impact on the success of culture change at Nissan and Mitsubishi. Finally, it finds that leaders and …

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Asian Practices Can Get Lost In Translation, Carol Gill Sep 2010

Asian Practices Can Get Lost In Translation, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

From Nissan we learn that organisational culture can become independent of the influences of national culture with effective leadership.

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The Impact Of Culture On Inter And Intra Organization Supply Chains At Nissan, Carol Gill Dec 2007

The Impact Of Culture On Inter And Intra Organization Supply Chains At Nissan, Carol Gill

Carol Gill

This paper examines how national and organizational culture influences supply chain management. To do this it reports on the case of Nissan Motor Company and finds that Japanese national culture had a significant impact on Nissan’s inter organizational supply chain. In addition to this, national culture influenced organizational culture which had a substantive impact on Nissan’s intra organizational supply chain. This article also analyses how Nissan was able to integrate its internal supply chain through culture change that successfully introduced Anglo business and human resource management practices into a Confusion Asian culture. It concludes that Nissan's organization culture had a …

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