was a prominent Japanese business scholar professor of management at the

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and president of the Seikei University in Tokyo, known as one of Japan's longstanding leaders in the field of management theory,Asian Productivity Organization. ''APO Translation Series,'' Nr. 1-14. 1963. p. 189 a specialist in

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matters.

Biography

Youth, education and early career

Noda was born in

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in 1893.''The Japan Who's who,'' 1950. p. 314 He graduated from Tokyo University in 1921 in literature and economics.International Council for Scientific Management. Indo-Pacific Council. ''II IPCCIOS conference, 1965,'' 1965. p. After his graduation in 1921 Noda joined

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, where he joined the Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute. In those early days at Mitsubishi, Noda made studies of the time and motion work of the Westinghouse Electric Company.

Further career and honours

In 1949 Noda was appointed deputy director of the Economic Stabilization Board. In the 1950s he was appointed professor of management at the

, served as president of this university in Tokyo, and was elected president of the Japanese Materials Management Association JMMC. In 1963 Nobuo Noda was awarded the

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by the

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, in New York. Noda was considered in those days as "another early leader of Japan's management movement."Allen Briggs Dickerman. ''Training Japanese managers,'' 1974. p. 6.

Selected publications

* Noda Nobuo and Mori Goro, ''Romu kauri kindaika no jitsurei,'' (Examples of the modernization of labor administration). Tokyo: Daiyamondo-sha, 1954. * Nobuo Noda, ''How Japan absorbed American Management Methods,'' Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, 1969.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Noda, Nobuo 1893 births 1993 deaths Japanese economists Japanese business theorists University of Tokyo alumni People from Nagano (city)