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Control systems and strategic adaptation: Lessons from the Japanese experience

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A model of cultural control is developed and contrasted with the more familiar bureaucratic control model, used to explain processes of strategic adaptation as observed in Japanese cultural control and American bureaucratic control firms.
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A model of cultural control is developed and contrasted with the more familiar bureaucratic control model. This model is used to explain processes of strategic adaptation as observed in Japanese cultural control and American bureaucratic control firms. A discussion of the strategic costs and benefits to the organization associated with each type of control is then presented.

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