The new community firm : employment, governance and management reform in Japan / T. Inagami and D. Hugh Whittaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inagami, Takeshi, author.

Whittaker, D. Hugh, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--Japan.

Industrial management.

Organizational change--Japan.

Organizational change.

Organizational change--Japan--Case studies.

Industrial management--Japan--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Company as community

The classic model : benchmark for change

Change and continuity

Company professionals and creative work

Corporate governance and managers' ideologies

Consolidated management and quasi internal labour markets

Summing up

Hitachi : a dancing giant

A victim of its own success?

Organization reform

Recasting the employment relationship

The impact on industrial relations

Evaluation

New model in the making?

Changes in job tenure.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-273) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14065-X

1-280-16327-5

0-511-12188-1

0-511-20654-2

0-511-08051-4

0-511-29774-2

0-511-48861-0

0-511-07975-3

OCLC:

252486206