Author: Charles Thomas TackneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Institutionalization of the Lifetime Employment System
Author: Charles Thomas TackneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Wages of Affluence
Author: Andrew GordonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674037816
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Andrew Gordon goes to the core of the Japanese enterprise system, the workplace, and reveals a complex history of contest and confrontation. The Japanese model produced a dynamic economy which owed as much to coercion as to happy consensus. Managerial hegemony was achieved only after a bitter struggle that undermined the democratic potential of postwar society. The book draws on examples across Japanese industry, but focuses in depth on iron and steel. This industry was at the center of the country's economic recovery and high-speed growth, a primary site of corporate managerial strategy and important labor union initiatives. Beginning with the Occupation reforms and their influence on the workplace, Gordon traces worker activism and protest in the 1950s and '60s, and how they gave way to management victory in the 1960s and '70s. He shows how working people had to compromise institutions of self-determination in pursuit of economic affluence. He illuminates the Japanese system with frequent references to other capitalist nations whose workplaces assumed very different shape, and looks to Japan's future, rebutting hasty predictions that Japanese industrial relations are about to be dramatically transformed in the American free-market image. Gordon argues that it is more likely that Japan will only modestly adjust the status quo that emerged through the turbulent postwar decades he chronicles here.
Employee Relations Management
Author: Singh, P. N.Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 8131753093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The introduction of the new economic policy in 1991 had a significant bearing on industrial relations. Globally, the focus is gradually shifting from traditional industrial relations, characterized by conflict resolution, to employee relations management,
East Asian Capitalism
Author: Luigi TombaPublisher: Feltrinelli Editore
ISBN: 9788807990571
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
Author: Colin CrouchPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761956532
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the wake of Maastricht neo-liberalism and de-regulation have come to dominate national and international political economy. Political Economy of Modern Capitalism addresses this convergence and provides a comprehensive overview for the future of capitalist diversity.
The New Community Firm
Author: T. InagamiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139442930
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
After sweeping all before it in the 1980s, 'Japanese management' ran into trouble in the 1990s, especially in the high-tech industries, prompting many to declare it had outlived its usefulness. From the late 1990s leading companies embarked on wide-ranging reforms designed to restore their entrepreneurial vigour. For some, this spelled the end of Japanese management; for others, little had changed. From the perspective of the community firm, Inagami and Whittaker examine changes to employment practices, corporate governance and management priorities, in this 2005 book, drawing on a rich combination of survey data and an in-depth study of Hitachi, Japan's leading general electric company and enterprise group. They find change and continuity, the emergence of a 'reformed model', but not the demise of the community firm. The model addresses both economic vitality and social fairness, within limits. This book offers unique insights into changes in Japanese management, corporations and society.
Japanese Industry in the American South
Author: Choong Soon KimPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136665757
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Japanese Industry in the American South is an anthropological case study that describes whole industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. This book searches for answers to these questions: Why are Japanese industries coming to the American South? To what extent does Japan industrial management in the American South replicate the industrial relations model used in the home plants in Japan? What are the reactions of Americans toward the Japanese expatriates? At the same time, the book looks at the profound impact that the Japanese have had on Southerners.
Institutional Change in Japan
Author: Magnus BlomströmPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134180578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system. After four decades of rapid economic growth in Japan, the 1990s saw the country enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Policy reforms were initially half-hearted, and businesses were slow to restructure as the global economy changed. The lagging economy has been impervious to aggressive fiscal stimulus measures and has been plagued by ongoing price deflation for years. Japan’s struggle has called into question the ability of the country’s economic institutions, originally designed to support factor accumulation and rapid development, to adapt to the new economic environment of the twenty-first century. This book discusses both historical and international comparisons including Meiji Japan, and recent economic and financial reforms in Korea, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and New Zealand, placing the current institutional changes in perspective. The contributors argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid, there has been significant institutional change over the last decade.
The Oxford Handbook of Innovation
Author: Jan FagerbergPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569119
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Policy Studies, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of this literature can be missed, and so constructive dialogues missed. The editors of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field, each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular focus on firms and networks. Section Two provides an account of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and the role of institutions and organizations in this context. Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences of innovation with respect to economic growth, international competitiveness, and employment. An introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.
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