Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Bringing Japanese Management Systems to the United States: Transplantation or Transformation? -- 2 Transferring Competitive Advantage across Borders: A Study of Japanese Auto Transplants in North America -- 3 Hybridization: Human Resource Management at Two Toyota Transplants -- 4 Recontextualization and Factory-to-Factory Knowledge Transfer from Japan to the United States: The Case of NSK -- 5 Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production through the Supply Chain -- 6 Japanese Quality Technology: Transferred and Transformed at Hewlett-Packard -- 7 Site-Specific Organization Learning in International Technology Transfer: Example from Toshiba -- 8 Transplantation? A Comparison of Japanese Television Assembly Plants in Japan and the United States -- 9 Using Expatriate Supervisors to Promote Cross-Border Management Practice Transfer: The Experience of a Japanese Electronics Company -- 10 Work System Innovation among Japanese Transplants in the United States -- 11 Just-In-Time and Other Manufacturing Practices: Implications for U.S. Manufacturing Performance -- 12 Organization Theory Perspectives on the Cross-Border Transfer of Organizational Patterns -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.