Overview
- A management philosophy that offers an alternative to the profit maximisation paradigm
- Explores a heart-felt human-centric management philosophy closely knit with praxis
- Provides insight into cross-cultural management
Part of the book series: The Nonaka Series on Knowledge and Innovation (NOSKI)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hypostasis
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Substantiation
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Reviews
“Zazen is dead earnestness. According to “Kase, Choi and Nonaka,” Dr Kazuo Inamori’s entire thinking and management philosophy exudes his dead earnestness towards the Way (or his purposive view of life) through his management practice. The genuineness of his conviction seems to be proven by the fact that his “credence — praxis” structure follows the self-same path practised by Master Dogen: strict behaviour discipline leading to the assimilation and assumption of spiritual values. As stressed in his “Shobo Genzo”, the Truth is learnt with body and mind (身心学道).” (Muho Nölke, the ninth abbot of Antaiji Temple)
“One measure we use to assess the quality of a corporate-level strategy is "value creation by the corporate centre". If the corporate centre is adding more value than competing corporate centres, it has a good corporate-level strategy. Value creation by the corporate centre provides an objective, if somewhat conceptual measure of corporate-level strategy success as well as an objective way of making strategic choices. Of course, strategic choices are driven by many other more humanistic factors, such as homing instinct, wish, compatibility/incompatibility of characters, traits, etc. This book by Kase et al is suggesting that the value creation concept can be amplified or expanded to include some of these humanistic aspects. Whether this approach is situation and person specific or whether it offers a more universal measure is not yet clear. The authors are encouraged to verify or falsify this significant point.” (Andrew Campbell, Hult International Business School (Ashridge))
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Eugene Choi, a professor of innovation and business history at Ritsumeikan University. A PhD and M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and an M.B.A. from Bayes Business School, University of London, and a B.A. from Waseda University. Corporate education and regional triple helix projects in Japan, the U.K., and Southeast Asia. The research director at the Ritsumeikan Inamori Research Center. A visiting professor at the National Tsinghua University, etc. Currently a senior faculty affiliate at Marshall Business School of the University of Southern California.
Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University. A widely recognised pioneer in the theory of Knowledge-based Management. A Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar of the University of California since 1997 and belongs to the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management in the United States since 2002, as its first Asian scholar. Ex-Dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. A professor (1982–95) and Director (1995–98) at the Institute of Business Research, Hitotsubashi University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dr Kazuo Inamori’s Management Praxis and Philosophy
Book Subtitle: A Response to the Profit-Maximisation Paradigm
Authors: Kimio Kase, Eugene Choi, Ikujiro Nonaka
Series Title: The Nonaka Series on Knowledge and Innovation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3398-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3397-4Published: 31 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3400-1Published: 01 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3398-1Published: 30 August 2022
Series ISSN: 3005-0065
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0073
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 561
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Sustainability Management, Asian Business