 In his largest work, "British Factory, Japanese Factory", Dore investigates whether decisions on hiring and promotion, in the Japanese firm Hitachi, over a particular time were based chiefly on "achievement" or chiefly on "ascribed characteristics".The context of the discussion implied that achievement-based decisions are good, while those based on ascribed characteristics are bad.His discussion admits explicitly and, implicitly, that there are several complications to moral judgement that include