Articles by Kenneth Hopper

R E C E N T   P R E S E N T A T I O N

On Saturday July 5, 2008, Kenneth Hopper presented a paper on the work of the Civil Communications Section of General MacArthur's command in Tokyo (1945- 1952) to the Association of Business Historians 2008 conference on ‘Business History after Alfred Chandler’. at the University of Birmingham, England.

His paper reflected the contents of chapter 10 of THE PURITAN GIFT: ‘Three Wise Men from the West go to Japan’ (see Book Excerpts).

A R T I C L E S

• ‘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)

Zeale is but a wilde-fire
without knowledge.

Rev. John Cotton, Boston,
Massachusetts (1651)
- quote from the book

If you have troubles opening any of the above documents we suggest you upgrade to the latest version of the free Adobe PDF Reader.

[to top]