Articles by Kenneth Hopper

• ‘Relationships in organizations’, Management (Journal of the Irish Management Association), October 1960 (pdf, 297 KB)
• ‘The hosiery and knitwear industry’, Economic Survey of Irish Industry, December 1962, Committee on Industrial Organization (jointly with E.R. O'Neill and L.B. Leonard) - text loo large to be included in this website
• ‘Graduate foremen’, Executive Letter, Harvard Business School, September 1966 (pdf, 479 KB)
• ‘The growing use of college graduates as foremen’, Management of Personnel Quarterly, University of Michigan, Summer/Fall 1966, pp. 2–12. (Described as ‘of outstanding value’ by Dale S. Beach in Managing People at Work, (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Macmillan, 1971 (pdf, 731 KB)
• ‘Graduates on the floor’, Management Today, October, 1966, pp. 74–79, 134, 138 (pdf, 869 KB)
• ‘The new look in supervision: The trend is toward college men’, Executive’s Bulletin, June 15, 1967 (pdf, 332 KB)
• ‘Are college graduates better foremen?’, Factory Magazine, September 1967 (pdf, 332 KB)
• ‘Engineers take the controls’, Financial Times, September 13, 1968 (pdf, 277 KB)
• ‘Production men at the helm’, Financial Times, January 23, 1969 (pdf, 68 KB)
• ‘From foreman to company chief’, Financial Times, February 21, 1969 (pdf, 54 KB)
• ‘Foremen in the boardroom’, Observer, March 2, 1969 (pdf, 1.6 MB)
• ‘The nature of American management’, Moor Gate and Wall Street, Fall 1969, pp. 34–51 (pdf, 536 KB)
• ‘Can the U.S. stay competitive?’, American Machinist Special Report, no. 644, July 27, 1970 (republished in Japanese, Nikkei Business, October 5, 1970) - (pdf, 2.1 MB)
• ‘Has America turned its back on the factory?’, Innovation, March 1971, pp. 24–31 (pdf, 15.6 MB)
• ‘Tall ships guide: The operating technology of schooners, brigs, barks, barkentines’, Newsday Weekend Magazine, Bicentennial Edition, June 27, 1976 (pdf, 10.2 MB)
• ‘America wakens to productivity’, Nikkei Business, November 5, 1979, pp. 77–82 (in Japanese, pdf, 1.7 MB)
• ‘Sharing Japan’s new management’, Japan Times, December 9, 1979 (pdf, 311 KB)
• ‘Creating Japan’s new industrial management: The Americans as teachers’, Human Resource Management, University of Michigan, Summer/Fall 1982, pp. 13–34 (pdf, 1.9 MB) / Republished in Japanese in Sengyo Kunren, volumes 338 (pdf, 7.3 MB) and 339 (pdf, 2 MB), 1983 by Nikkeiren, the Japanese Federation of Employers’ Associations
• ‘Quality, Japan, and the U.S.: The first chapter’, Quality Progress, September 1985, pp. 34–41 (pdf, 2.6 MB)
• ‘Fear on the Kanto plain – Thoughts on Japan’s industrial miracle’, Shire Trust Newsletter, Winter 1988/89 pp. 3–4 (pdf, 389 KB)

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