The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations

by Richter,Franz-Jurgen

• ISBN13: 9780415131919
• ISBN10: 041513191X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book assesses the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analyzing the dynamic processes by which a Japanese company organizes itself, exploring such areas as networks, informatics, quality control circles and human systems management.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(1)
List of tables	viii	(1)
Contributors	ix
Introduction and background	1	(8)
Part I Philosophy of organizational dynamism	9	(86)
1 Self-renewal of corporate organizations: Equilibrium, self-sustaining, and self-renewing models	9	(23)
Tsuyoshi Numagami
Toshizumi Ohta
Ikujiro Nonaka
2 Self-organization in Informatics	32	(27)
Haruo Hata
Charles Adamson
3 Epistemological types and creative environment	59	(13)
Magoroh Maruyama
4 What can we learn from biological networks?	72	(23)
Vera Calenbuhr
Part II Organizational behaviour and the management of the firm	95	(56)
5 Japanese management as a set of cybernetic principles of managing human systems	95	(7)
Tetsunori Koizumi
6 Group decision making in the 'self-organization' perspective	102	(14)
Haruo Takagi
7 Progressive and degenerative problemshifts of organizations: Organizational evolutionism based on critical rationalism	116	(16)
Kenshu Kikuzawa
8 Neural network simulation of QC circle activities	132	(19)
Shigekazu Ishihara
Keiko Ishihara
Mitsuo Nagamachi
Alfredo Pinochet
Part III Symbiotic interaction with the environment	151	(51)
9 Population ecology versus network dynamics: From evolution to co-evolution	151	(16)
Frank-Jurgen Richter
Yoshiya Teramoto
10 Comparative management systems: Trade-offs-free concept	167	(11)
Milan Zeleny
11 Communicating through on-line database systems: A strategy for monitoring corporate environments	178	(11)
Nobuyuki Chikudate
12 Autonomous anticipative management and its evolutionary process	189	(13)
Kenji Tanaka
Index	202