The new community firm
Subtitle: employment, governance and management reform in Japan
By: T. Inagami and D. Hugh Whittaker.
Contributors: Whittaker, D. H.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Industrial management -- Japan.; Organizational change -- Japan.; Organizational change -- Japan -- Case studies.; Industrial management -- Japan -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "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, drawing on a combination of survey data and an in-depth study of Hitachi, Japan's leading general electric company and enterprise group."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-273) and index.