To Be Competitive, ________ Recommended That American Firms Adopt a New

question 285

Multiple Choice

To be competitive, ________ recommended that American firms adopt a new management style that was a hybrid of the approaches used by Japanese firms and those used by American firms called ________.

• A) Mi Yurchishin, Theory X
• B) Akiko Animoto, Theory Z
• C) William Ouchi, Theory Z
• D) Sam Hyakowa, Theory Y

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