Honda

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An engineering-led outlier among Japanese automakers; English-language book coverage is unusually thin for a company of its size.

5 books

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  1. Driving HondaJeffrey Rothfeder, 2014
  2. Honda Motor: The Men, the Management, the MachinesTetsuo Sakiya, 1982
  3. The Honda Myth: The Genius and His WakeMasaaki Sato, 2006

Books 5

Tetsuo Sakiya · 1982 · Japanese journalist's standard history of Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa.
Robert L. Shook · 1988 · The Marysville transplant: how Honda ran Japanese manufacturing with American workers.
Masaaki Sato · 2006 · Revisionist Japanese history of Soichiro Honda and his successors.
Jeffrey Rothfeder · 2014 · The best modern account of Honda's decentralized engineering culture.
Sol W. Sanders · 1975 · Early Western biography, written while Soichiro Honda still ran the company.