Enterprise as a carrier of culture : an anthropological approach to business administration / Hirochika Nakamaki, Koichiro Hioki, Noriya Sumihara, Izumi Mitsui, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nakamaki, Hirochika, 1947- editor.

Hioki, Kōichirō, 1949- editor.

Sumihara, Noriya, 1957- editor.

Mitsui, Izumi, editor.

Series:

Translational systems sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business anthropology--Japan.

Business anthropology.

Business anthropology--England.

Corporate culture.

England.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

This book expands anthropological studies of business enterprise to include comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. A number of books on business anthropology have been published, but most of them are written by anthropologists alone. By contrast, this book engages interdisciplinary studies, e.g., not only by anthropologists but also management scholars and other social scientists. It is the second volume of studies forwarding anthropologicla approaches to business administration, Keiei Jinruigaku. This volume focuses on the cultural dismensions of enterprise. Here enterprise is viewed as a medium carrying culture, rather than solely an entity of production and management, as is typical in mainstream studies. The approach is based on Tadao Umesao's definition of culture as a projection of instruments/devices and institutions into the mental/spiritual dimensions of life. Therefore, in ourview production and management are among the projections of the cultural aspects of enterprise. This perspective, we believe, constitutes a new frontier in the study of business administration.

Contents:

Part I. Religiosity, spirituality, and business

Corporate society, the formation of order, and "Quaker codes": seeking an origin of corporate governance principles

Management of miracles and pilgrimage: a comparative study of votive offering in Europe and Japan

Spiritual leadership: background, theory, and application to Japanese business leaders

Part II. Exhibition, performance, and inducement

How the "anomaly" of nuclear power plants has been explained before and after the 3.11 disaster in Japan: an observation through power company visitor centers in Japan and England

Modelling museums: the management culture of family porcelain in England

An orchestral myth: maestros are born and made

Part III. History, story, and industry

Museum and visitor centre in England: schism and conflict over globalisation

Brewing heritage: issues in the management of corporate heritage in the brewing industry in Britain

Islay, a very tasty idea: inventing, embedding, and selling tradition in the contemporary scotch whisky industry

One history, two narratives: the company myths of Japanese whisky companies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9811371954

9789811371950

OCLC:

1103219813