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extract from an international management case studyHodgetts, R.M and Luthans, F. (2003) ‘International Management: Culture, Strategy and Behaviour’, McGraw-Hill, Boston, pp 238
"...Disney Company did encounter a few unique cultural problems when developing Tokyo Disneyland:
The problem: how to dispose of some 250 tons of trash that would be generated weekly by Tokyo Disneyland visitors?
The standard Disney solution: trash compactors.
The Japanese proposal: pigs to eat the trash and be slaughtered and sold at a profit.
James B. Cora and his team of some 150 operations experts did a little calculating and pointed out that it would take 100,000 pigs to do the job. And then there would be the smell . . .
The Japanese relented..."
