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Collective Myopia in Japanese Organizations

A Transcultural Approach for Identifying Corporate Meltdowns

  • Authors
  • Nobuyuki Chikudate
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 1-13
  3. Definition and Intellectual Roots of Collective Myopia
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 15-32
  4. Normcracy
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 33-49
  5. Socio-Cultural and Institutional Influences
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 51-80
  6. Descriptions of Japanese White-Collar Workplaces
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 81-116
  7. Revisioning Japanese Management
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 117-154
  8. Questioning Organizational Change
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 155-164
  9. HOW Do We Use Collective Myopia Thinking?
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 165-179
  10. Toward Transcultural Learning and the Rise of “Empathia”
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 181-190
  11. Conclusion
    Nobuyuki Chikudate
    Pages 191-192
  12. Back Matter
    Pages 193-220
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About this book

Introduction

Drawing on European philosophies, this book examines collective myopia and its role in global business through various case studies of Japanese organizations, including the Tokyo Electric Power Company.

Keywords

corporate culture white-collar crimes corporate crisis business ethics crisis management safety study Japan postmodernism post-structuralism critical theory phenomenology Habermas Foucault power communication discourse Global Business management organization organizations

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