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Title
Translating and incorporating American management thought into Japan : impacts on academics and practices of business administration / Izumi Mitsui, Kazuhito Isomura, Yoshiyuki Takeuchi, editors.
ISBN
9789811945427 (electronic bk.)
981194542X (electronic bk.)
9811945411
9789811945410
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-4542-7 doi
Call Number
HD70.J3
Dewey Decimal Classification
658.00952
Summary
This book focuses on the establishment process of the Japanese style of management (JSM). Traditionally, it has been widely believed that the JSM consists of three pillars: lifetime employment, a seniority-based wage system, and company unions, and is native to Japan. This book opposes these traditional views on the JSM and argues that it has been shaped by the influence of management theories and ideas of other countries. The JSM has not only adopted the ideas and concepts of other countries, but also has refined, translated, and customized them to make such ideas and concepts acceptable in Japan. The hypothesis presented here is that in the postwar period of rapid growth, the JSM was a hybrid set of management theories and techniques greatly influenced by American ideas about management. This book concentrates on the impact of American management theories and ideas on the JSM. Taking the historical point of view, it clarifies that impact not only for academics but also for businesspeople. The hypothesis propounded here is that some of those theories and ideas have been accepted whereas some of them have been rejected and eventually made irrelevant. The following issues are discussed: scientific management, the human relations school, Barnards organizational theory, Simons decision-making theory, Demings quality control, Druckers management thoughts, strategy, human resource management, and corporate governance.
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Includes index.
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Series
Translational systems sciences ; v. 30. 2197-8840
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9789811945410
1. Introduction: historical background and focus of this book
2. Introduction, installation, and dissemination of the Scientific Management in Japan. 3
The acceptance of Human Relations Theory in Japan
4. Examining the impact of Chester Barnards organization theory in Japan
5. Peter F. Drucker and the Philosophy of Management
6. How has Japan accepted, developed, and transformed strategic management theory?
7. The development of Human Resource Management theory in Japan
8. The development of corporate culture studies in Japan: What did the corporate culture boom of the 1980s bring about?
9. Conclusion.
