lean manufacturing more complex. Practical implications: Successfully addressing barriers to lean manufacturing adoption …Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the challenges of lean manufacturing implementation in the remanufacturing industry … company adopting lean manufacturing best practice: Toyota Motor Company. Through a comparison of the characteristics of the …

This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition … from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using …, this has not resulted in substituting skilled workers in Japanese manufacturing. Rather, it has had the profound positive …