Cluster-Based Industrial Development Kaizen Management for MSE Growt
This book attempts to provide an effective strategy for industrial development based on the KAIZEN management training experiments conducted in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Tanzania. We focus on micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in industrial clu
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Cluster-Based Industrial Development Kaizen Management for MSE Growth in Developing Countries Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
© Tetsushi Sonobe and Keijiro Otsuka 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-38469-0 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-48100-2 ISBN 978-1-137-38511-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137385116 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Otsuka, Keijiro. Cluster-based industrial developments : KAIZEN management for MSE growth in developing countries / Keijiro Otsuka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, Tetsushi Sonobe, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. pages cm ISBN 978-1-349-48100-2 1. Small business—Developing countries—Management. 2. Industrialization— Developing countries 3. Economic development— Developing countries. I. Sonobe, Tetsushi. II. Title. HD62.7.O87 2014 338.9’0091722—dc23 2014028331
Contents List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Preface
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1 Introduction 1.1 Rising opportunities for industrial development in low-income countries 1.2 Dominance of cluster-based industrial development 1.3 Entrepreneurship as a key to successful industrialization 1.4 What is Kaizen management? 1.5 Why is Kaizen management so important? 1.6 Applicability of Kaizen to SSA: Illustrated evidence from Ethiopia 1.7 A brief review of randomized controlled trials in management training 1
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