Terje Grønning received his PhD in sociology from Ritsumeikan University in Japan with the dissertation Human Value and 'Competitiveness': On the Social Organization of Production at Toyota Motor Corporation and New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (1992). His works include chapters in Shokugyô Seikatsu Kenkyukai (editor) Kigyô shakai to ningen (Corporate Society and Human Beings, 1994) and in Å. Sandberg (editor) Enriching Production (1995). He is a research fellow at The European Inter-university Association on Society, Science and Technology (ESST) at The University of Oslo.
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