Japanese Business Management: Restructuring for Low Growth and Globalisation

by Hasegawa,Harukiyo

• ISBN13: 9780415172561
• ISBN10: 041517256X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this innovative new study the views of Japan's leading experts on the globalisation of Japanese business, management and industrial relations explain how traditional Japanese-style management is responding to changes. The areas covered include the changes made in management itself inside Japan and also how it is adapting itself when tranferred overseas. There are also chapters on the formation of regional markets, technology transfer, the subcontracting system, ownership, work practices and industrial relations.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(2)
List of tables	ix	(2)
List of contributors	xi	(3)
Preface	xiv	(2)
List of abbreviations	xvi	(2)
Glossary	xviii
Introduction	1	(16)
Hasegawa Harukiyo
Glenn D. Hook
Part I Japanese business in globalization processes	17	(90)
1 Japanese business in triadic regionalization	19	(19)
Glenn D. Hook
2 Japanese global strategies in Europe and the formation of regional markets	38	(23)
Hasegawa Harukiyo
3 Japanese investment strategy and technology transfer in East Asia	61	(19)
Yamashita Shoichi
4 Changes in Japanese automobile and electronic transplants in the USA: Evaluating Japanese-style management and production systems	80	(27)
Abo Tetsuo
Part II Restructuring in management	107	(72)
5 Globalisation's impact upon the subcontracting system	109	(19)
Ikeda Masayoshi
6 Ownership and control of large corporations in contemporary Japan	128	(15)
Nakata Masaki
7 Small headquarters and the reorganisation of management	143	(20)
Okubayashi Koji
8 The rise of flexible and individual ability-oriented management	163	(16)
Watanabe Takashi
Part III Restructuring in labour	179	(62)
9 The end of the `mass production system' and changes in work practices	181	(14)
Munakata Masayuki
10 Japanese-style industrial relations in historical perspective	195	(22)
Nishinarita Yutaka
11 New trends in enterprise unions and the labour movement	217	(24)
Ohki Kazunori
Index	241