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Japanese Business Management Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalisation
268 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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In this study the views of Japan's leading experts on the globalization of Japanese business, management and industrial relations explain how traditional Japanese-style management is responding to the changes following the collapse of the bubble economy. The areas covered include the changes made in management itself inside Japan and also how it is adapting itself when transferred overseas. The... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Japanese business in globalization processes; Chapter 1 Japanese business in triadic regionalization, Glenn D. Hook; Chapter 2 Japanese global strategies in Europe and the formation of regional markets, Hasegawa Harukiyo; Chapter 3 Japanese investment Strategy and technology transfer in East Asia, Yamashita Sh?ichi; Chapter 4 Changes in Japanese automobile and electronic transplants in the USA, Ab? Tetsuo; Part 2 Restructuring in management; Chapter 5 Globalisation’s impact upon the subcontracting system, Ikeda Masayoshi; Chapter 6 Ownership and control of large corporations in contemporary Japan, Nakata Masaki; Chapter 7 Small headquarters and the reorganisation of management, Okubayashi K?ji; Chapter 8 The rise of flexible and individual ability-oriented management, Watanabe Takashi; Part 3 Restructuring in labour; Chapter 9 The end of the ‘mass production system’ and changes in work practices, Munakata Masayuki; Chapter 10 Japanese-style industrial relations in historical perspective, Nishinarita Yutaka; Chapter 11 New trends in enterprise unions and the labour movement, ?hki Kazunori;
Biography
Hasegawa Harukiyo is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield and is author of The Steel Industry in Japan., Glenn D. Hook is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield and is author of
