Global Japanization

Author : Tony Elger,Chris Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136929212

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Global Japanization? by Tony Elger,Chris Smith Pdf

Global Japaniziation? Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy. The editors present original case studies of work reorganization and workers’ experiences within both Japanese companies and those of their competitors in diverse sectors and national settings. These studies provide a wide-ranging critique of conventional accounts of Japanese models of management and production, and their implications for employees. They offer new evidence and fresh perspectives on the role of "transplants" in disseminating manufacturing innovations, and on the responses of non-Japanese firm in reorganizing production operations and industrial relations.

Author : Tony Elger,Chris Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136929229

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Global Japanization? by Tony Elger,Chris Smith Pdf

Global Japaniziation? Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy. The editors present original case studies of work reorganization and workers’ experiences within both Japanese companies and those of their competitors in diverse sectors and national settings. These studies provide a wide-ranging critique of conventional accounts of Japanese models of management and production, and their implications for employees. They offer new evidence and fresh perspectives on the role of "transplants" in disseminating manufacturing innovations, and on the responses of non-Japanese firm in reorganizing production operations and industrial relations.

Author : William Pesek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118780725

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Japanization by William Pesek Pdf

An in-depth look at Japan's economic malaise and the steps itmust take to compete globally In Japanization, Bloomberg columnist WilliamPesek—based in Tokyo—presents a detailed look atJapan's continuing twenty-year economic slow-down, the politicaland economic reasons behind it, and the policies it could andshould undertake to return to growth and influence. Despite newPrime Minister Shinzo Abe's promise of economic revitalization,investor optimism about the future, and plenty of potential,Japanization reveals why things are unlikely to change anytime soon. Pesek argues that "Abenomics," as the new policies are popularlyreferred to, is nothing more than a dressed-up version of the sameold fiscal and monetary policies that have left Japan withcrippling debt, interest rates at zero, and constant deflation. Heexplores the ten forces that are stunting Japan's growth and offersprescriptions for fixing each one. Offers a skeptical counterpoint to the popular rosy narrativeon the economic outlook for Japan Gives investors practical and detailed insight on the realcondition of Japan's economy Reveals ten factors stunting Japan's growth and why they areunlikely to be solved any time soon Explains why most of what readers believe they know aboutJapan's economy is wrong Includes case studies of some of the biggest Japanesecompanies, including Olympus, Japan Airlines, Sony, and Toyota,among others For many investors, businesspeople, and economists, Japan's longeconomic struggle is difficult to comprehend, particularly giventhe economic advantages it appears to have over its neighbors.Japanization offers a ground-level look at why its problemscontinue and what it can do to change course.

Author : William Pesek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Globalization
ISBN : OCLC:905245066

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Japanization by William Pesek Pdf

Author : Rebecca Suter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174713

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The Japanization of Modernity by Rebecca Suter Pdf

"Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Despite Murakami’s critical and commercial success, particularly in the United States, his role as a mediator between Japanese and American literature and culture is seldom discussed. Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of Murakami’s fiction, Rebecca Suter complicates our understanding of the author’s oeuvre and highlights his contributions not only as a popular writer but also as a cultural critic on both sides of the Pacific. Suter concentrates on Murakami’s short stories—less known in the West but equally worthy of critical attention—as sites of some of the author’s bolder experiments in manipulating literary (and everyday) language, honing cross-cultural allusions, and crafting metafictional techniques. This study scrutinizes Murakami’s fictional worlds and their extraliterary contexts through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity, universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Orientalism and globalization. By casting new light on the style and substance of Murakami’s prose, Suter situates the author and his works within the sphere of contemporary Japanese literature and finds him a prominent place within the broader sweep of the global literary scene."

Author : Dongchul Cho,Takatoshi Ito,Andrew Mason
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788110440

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Economic Stagnation in Japan by Dongchul Cho,Takatoshi Ito,Andrew Mason Pdf

Japan’s dramatic transformation from economic success to economic stagnation offers important policy lessons to advanced countries everywhere that are struggling with stagnation. The term ‘Japanization’ is often used by economists to describe long-term stagnation and deflation. Symptoms include high unemployment, weak economic activity, interest rates near zero, quantitative easing, and population aging. In the global context, what can governments do to mitigate the downward trends experienced by Japan? This judiciously timed book investigates in depth the causes of Japan’s ‘lost decades’ versus the real recovery achieved by the United States, and the lessons that can be learned.

Author : Junko Sakai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351484954

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The Clash of Economic Cultures by Junko Sakai Pdf

The globalization of the world economy today means that more and more people are experiencing working in another culture. Focusing on the real experiences of workers in Japanese transnational finance companies, this book not only throws light on this specific case, but at the same time raises timely questions and insights concerning the newly emerging multicultural work experiences world-wide. The Clash of Economic Cultures: Japanese Bankers in the City of London reflects on contemporary discussions in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies of individual global movement and cultural interaction. While there are some studies on Japanese multinational companies in Europe, they have typically assumed stereotyped differences in management systems and work cultures. This book, however, breaks the mold by looking at the culture and individuals' subjective views about their working lives and also their own worldviews; this perspective illuminates the difficulties in working relationships between Japanese and Europeans. Junko Sakai reveals, through 100 transcribed interviews, the influence of power relationships on people of different groups in terms of gender, class, and ethnicity. The Clash of Economic Cultures shows uneven transformation of economic and cultural hegemony between East and West. This book gives voice to Japanese men and women whose voices are rarely heard, and to the British who have worked for non-Westerners in the West. It is also a significant and timely analysis of the increasing influence of non-Western companies in London. It will be of great interest to cultural anthropologists, business historians, sociologists and scholars in Japanese and Asian studies, as well as those involved in international finance and management.

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501700385

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A World of Regions by Peter J. Katzenstein Pdf

Observing the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J. Katzenstein argues that regions have become critical to contemporary world politics. This view is in stark contrast to those who focus on the purportedly stubborn persistence of the nation-state or the inevitable march of globalization. In detailed studies of technology and foreign investment, domestic and international security, and cultural diplomacy and popular culture, Katzenstein examines the changing regional dynamics of Europe and Asia, which are linked to the United States through Germany and Japan. Regions, Katzenstein contends, are interacting closely with an American imperium that combines territorial and non-territorial powers. Katzenstein argues that globalization and internationalization create open or porous regions. Regions may provide solutions to the contradictions between states and markets, security and insecurity, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Embedded in the American imperium, regions are now central to world politics.

Author : Jill Rubery,Damian Grimshaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137102249

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The Organisation of Employment by Jill Rubery,Damian Grimshaw Pdf

The Organisation of Employment explores the diversity in the organisation of employment among advanced industrial societies. It focuses on the implications of distinctive employment systems for international competitiveness, organisational performance and social divisions and considers the impact of globalisation on the sustainability of such diversity. Ideal for final year undergraduate and postgraduate students of international business and human resource management, The Organisation of Employment provides a stimulating and wide ranging examination of this dynamic subject.

Author : Phillip O'Hara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134435302

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Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy by Phillip O'Hara Pdf

Recent institutional changes have seen the increasing dominance of globalization and neoliberalism in the world economy. As markets have been deregulated, privatization and unproductive government spending have been promoted. Yet the greater volatility of capitals, the emergence of many financial crises, a decline in trust, and environmental problems have cast doubt on the effectiveness of neoliberal globalization. This book studies the impact of neoliberal globalization on growth and development in the world economy. It scrutinizes whether new social structures of accumulation or modes of regulation have emerged to promote long-term socioeconomic performance in the global economy during the early years of the twenty-first century. Special reference is given to the specific performance of neoliberal governance; transnational corporations; global institutions of money, trade and production; international relations of war and terrorism; financial institutions; and the family-community environment. It is a comprehensive analysis of the degree to which institutional development has managed to promote socioeconomic performance in the global economy. It also presents a thorough policy program of action for long wave upswing in the world economy. It will be especially useful for those scholars and students concerned with issues of governance, global political economy, institutions and macroeconomics

Author : Paul Edwards
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405142021

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Industrial Relations by Paul Edwards Pdf

This is a completely revised and updated second edition of the acclaimed Industrial Relations. The new book gives particular attention throughout to the effects of international and European developments on British Industrial Relations.

Author : J. Busumtwi-Sam,L. Dobuzinskis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403918451

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Turbulence and New Directions in Global Political Economy by J. Busumtwi-Sam,L. Dobuzinskis Pdf

James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis have assembled a leading team of experts in the field to examine how phenomena associated with globalization impact on political economy in theory and in practice. The volume employs a variety of theoretical and analytical approaches to examine the very changeable nature of the global political economy, in terms of academic analysis, policy and practice.

Author : Peter J. Katzenstein,Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731112

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Beyond Japan by Peter J. Katzenstein,Takashi Shiraishi Pdf

Have Japan's relative economic decline and China's rapid ascent altered the dynamics of Asian regionalism? Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, the editors of Network Power, one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian regionalism in the 1990s, present here an impressive new collection that brings the reader up to date. This book argues that East Asia's regional dynamics are no longer the result of a simple extension of any one national model. While Japanese institutional structures and political practices remain critically important, the new East Asia now under construction is more than, and different from, the sum of its various national parts. At the outset of a new century, the interplay of Japanese factors with Chinese, American, and other national influences is producing a distinctively new East Asian region.

Author : Koichi Iwabuchi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822384083

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Recentering Globalization by Koichi Iwabuchi Pdf

Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western—particularly American—popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokémon, anime, pop music, television dramas such as Tokyo Love Story and Long Vacation—the export of Japanese media and culture is big business. In Recentering Globalization, Koichi Iwabuchi explores how Japanese popular culture circulates in Asia. He situates the rise of Japan’s cultural power in light of decentering globalization processes and demonstrates how Japan’s extensive cultural interactions with the other parts of Asia complicate its sense of being "in but above" or "similar but superior to" the region. Iwabuchi has conducted extensive interviews with producers, promoters, and consumers of popular culture in Japan and East Asia. Drawing upon this research, he analyzes Japan’s "localizing" strategy of repackaging Western pop culture for Asian consumption and the ways Japanese popular culture arouses regional cultural resonances. He considers how transnational cultural flows are experienced differently in various geographic areas by looking at bilateral cultural flows in East Asia. He shows how Japanese popular music and television dramas are promoted and understood in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and how "Asian" popular culture (especially Hong Kong’s) is received in Japan. Rich in empirical detail and theoretical insight, Recentering Globalization is a significant contribution to thinking about cultural globalization and transnationalism, particularly in the context of East Asian cultural studies.

Author : Ravi Palat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134790975

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Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim by Ravi Palat Pdf

This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in regional dynamics in east and southeast Asia. It suggests that while the expansion of Japanese corporate networks was crucial to the emergence of the region as a low-cost exporter to the world, the reintegration of China into the world market will free the region from its dependence on the US as a market of last resort.