Overview
- Clarifies the ways in which today’s Japanese companies have changed from the 1980s, when “Japanese management” was a focus of attention
- Explains how those changes can be attributed to the progress of globalization in management activities, in particular, to the influence of the American style of business management
- Describes how the degree of change in management of Japanese companies varies with institutions, business strategies, organizations, and human resources
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Following the burst of the “economic bubble” in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. Changes in corporate governance were widely discussed during that decade in studies on “Japanese management.” These discussions have resulted in little progress, however, since Americanization became the dominant discourse concerning governance and the management system. There have been few studies conducted from an academic point of view on the internal aspects of organizations that practice traditional Japanese management theory.
This book examines how, and the degree to which, the development of market principles accompanying the advances of globalization has affected the traditional Japanese system. It focuses on four aspects of corporate management: management institutions, strategy, organization, and human resource management. The aggregation of the new management system in Japanese companies is regarded as a distinctive Japanese-style system of management. With emphasis on these four aspects, research was conducted on the basic structure of that system, following changes in the market,technology, and society. Further, specific functions of the basic structure of the Japanese-style management system were studied. Those findings are included here, along with a discussion and analysis of the direction of future changes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Management in Change
Book Subtitle: The Impact of Globalization and Market Principles
Editors: Norio Kambayashi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55096-9
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-55095-2Published: 30 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56382-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55096-9Published: 18 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 217
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Management, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership