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Honda Motor: The Men, the Management, the Machines

Tetsuo Sakiya

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Summary

Tetsuo Sakiya surveys the history of Honda Motor and the work of its co-founders, Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa. The study examines the company’s management strategies in the context of economic, political and social change in Japan. It considers the people and organization behind the company as well as its machines.

  • SourceHonda Motor — licensed Kodansha description on Google Books · Publisher description and bibliographic details; 1982 ISBN 9780870115226

Why read it Our view

Read it to consider a company’s growth alongside the roles of its founders and the setting in which they worked. The study gives founders a way to ask how management choices and changes in the wider economy shape an organization, rather than treating one person as the whole business.

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  • Soichiro HondaCompany-history subject
    Sakiya’s 1982 study examines Honda Motor and the work of co-founders Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa, including the company’s management strategies.
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