Cultural Assumptions, Productivity and Innovation

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Excerpt from Cultural Assumptions, Productivity and Innovation: Understanding the United States Through Contrast, With the People's Republic of ChinaIn making this analysis, I worked from the position that the study of another culture is highly useful as a means of understanding one's own culture better, not that one culture should borrow from another. This approach allows for and uses the heightened awareness of contrast as a method of illumination.I do not conclude by proposing another theory, such as Theory 2 (ouchi, but I h0pe through this presentation to remind the reader that cultures are not fixed, closed systems which can be understood in static, mechanistic terms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.