The New Japanese Firm As A Hybrid Organization

Author : Mitsuharu Miyamoto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811088513

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The new Japanese Firm as a Hybrid Organization by Mitsuharu Miyamoto Pdf

This book examines corporate reform in Japan by focusing on corporate governance and the employment system. Contrary to a prevailing assertion of radical change, it is revealed that actual change is gradual, and a new type of Japanese firm is generated by reform with gradual change. Throughout the book, Japanese firms are seen to be evolving through gradual institutional change. Chapter 1 discusses how Japanese corporate governance changed incrementally and cumulatively to rebuild management and restore corporate performance. Chapter 2 focuses on reform in work organization and discusses how performance-related pay was introduced in tandem with corporate governance reform. It is shown that the practice of long-term employment has been maintained despite the prolonged depression and mounting pressure to shift to shareholder-oriented corporate governance. Chapter 3 investigates how Japanese firms are diversified into four types, based on whether performance-related pay is introduced and whether long-term employment is maintained. The author demonstrates that major Japanese firms reconstruct their organization as hybrid structures based on a combination of long-term employment and performance-related pay. Chapter 4 investigates how performance-related pay actually operates. It is analyzed by distinguishing the three main objectives to be attained by performance pay: succeeding in individual performance, contributing to overall organization performance, and meeting the challenge of new tasks. Finally, Chapter 5 investigates how employees react to changes in corporate governance. Using survey data, the book shows that Japanese employees approve of increasing shareholder value, regarding it as corporate value. They not only approve the monitoring of management by shareholders, but also demand a part in the monitoring. Employees seek to be engaged in corporate governance—a true challenge for a Japanese corporation.

Author : Masahiko Aoki,Gregory Jackson,Hideaki Miyajima
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191536380

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Corporate Governance in Japan by Masahiko Aoki,Gregory Jackson,Hideaki Miyajima Pdf

Debates regarding corporate governance have become increasingly important in Japan as the post-war model of bank-based, stakeholder-oriented corporate governance faces the new pressures associated with globalization and growing investor demands for shareholder value. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from economics, law, sociology and management studies, this book looks at how the Japanese approach to corporate governance and the firm have changed in the post-bubble era. The contributions offer a unique empirical exploration of why and how Japanese firms are reshaping their corporate governance arrangements, leading to greater diversity among firms and new 'hybrid' forms of corporate governance. The book concludes by looking at what effect these incremental but transformative changes may have on Japan's distinctive variety of capitalism.

Author : Hyungkee Kim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000840506

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The East Asian Model by Hyungkee Kim Pdf

Hyungkee Kim analyses the model of East Asian development as it existed during periods of high growth and how it was transformed by pressures from both the Washington consensus and its own internal contradictions. Many have discussed the successes and failures of the East Asian model, but Kim is concerned rather with the story of its transformation, and its long-term sustainability. He uses a Five Sector Model, which focuses on the, state, corporate, financial, labour, and foreign sectors to identify the core of East Asian model and examine the variants in Korea, Japan and China. He also outlines the distinctions between the East Asian model and Western development models including the Anglo-American, Rhine, and Nordic models. He analyses in detail the institutional changes such as marketization, privatization, liberalization, and flexibilization that have transformed the East Asian model. Highlighting the major problems that emerged from the transformation of the East Asian model, Kim assesses its prospects for economic, social and ecological sustainability and proposes an agenda for institutional reforms. An essential reading for scholars of East Asian political economy.

Author : Tsutomu Nakano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317199663

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Japanese Management in Evolution by Tsutomu Nakano Pdf

Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors as well as other key industries, and to put those changes in historical perspective by providing an overview of business development since World War II. By employing state-of-the-art research techniques and unconventional innovative approaches in analysing Japanese management – including network and discourse analysis, ethnographic explorations, and more – the book reveals historical developments and in-depth analyses of established and emerging composition of sectors and industries where cultural capital matters. Throughout the book, the common theme conveyed to readers is a consistently strong message that the change is ongoing and the evolution of management style is real in the Japanese context. The book would be of great interest to researchers, academics and practitioners in fields of global management, international management, and Asian capitalism.

Author : H. Miyoshi,Y. Nakata
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230294905

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Have Japanese Firms Changed? by H. Miyoshi,Y. Nakata Pdf

If we ask simply whether Japanese business has changed, our answer must be an unequivocal yes and this is answered with a primary focus on technology, the traditional source of Japan's strong competitiveness. But if we ask whether Japanese firms have also changed in any substantive ways we must accept a less sanguine conclusion.

Author : T. Sakikawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137268860

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Transforming Japanese Workplaces by T. Sakikawa Pdf

Explores the transformations that have taken place in Japanese workplaces since the dawn of the new millennium in terms of management practices, particularly in the areas of Human Resource Management and organizational culture. The author empirically assesses the effectiveness of the new approaches introduced by Japanese companies.

Author : Robert Boyer,Hiroyasu Uemura,Akinori Isogai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136651144

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Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms by Robert Boyer,Hiroyasu Uemura,Akinori Isogai Pdf

Among a vast literature on the Asian economies, the book proposes a distinctive approach, inspired by Régulation Theory, in order to understand the current transformations of the Asian economies. The book follows their transformations after the 1997 Asian crisis until the subprime crisis. During this period, the viability of their growth regime was to coherence of five basic institutional forms: the degree of competition and insertion into the world economy, the nature of labour market organization, the monetary and exchange rate regimes and finally the style for State intervention via legislation, public spending and tax. The book provides new findings. The degree of financial liberalization and opening to the world economy largely determines the severity of the 2008-2009 recession and the political-economic reactions of each Asian countries to the subprime crisis. Asian capitalisms are distinct from American and European ones, but they are quite diverse among themselves, and this differentiation has been widening during the last decade. This book will help to shed light on a de facto regional economic integration is taking place in Asia, but unsolved past political conflicts do hinder the institutionalisation of these interdependencies.

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535731

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The Company and the Shogun by Adam Clulow Pdf

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.

Author : R. Haak,M. Pudelko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230523289

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Japanese Management by R. Haak,M. Pudelko Pdf

Japanese management is currently considered to be in crisis. This book analyzes the degree to which the Japanese management model is changing, in order to regain its competitiveness. It brings together up-to-date research on this important topic by a number of the best known American, Asian and European scholars of Japanese management. A broad variety of management areas such as strategy, corporate governance, globalization, organization, finance, HRM, production, innovation, organizational learning and retailing is covered.

Author : David Chiavacci,Sébastien Lechevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429884559

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Japanese Political Economy Revisited by David Chiavacci,Sébastien Lechevalier Pdf

During the last 30 years, the Japanese political economy system has experienced significant changes that are usually not well understood or analysed because of their complexity and contradictions. This book provides new analyses and insights on the process of evolving Japanese political economy including Japan’s current economic policy known as Abenomics. The first three chapters looks at evolutions at the corporate level, characterised in recent years by increasing firm heterogeneity. The authors apply theoretically driven analyses to the complex subject of corporate governance, human resource management and corporate reporting by discussing new developments in context of their economic opportunities as well as of their institutional contradictions with continuities in Japanese business practices. The second group of chapters deals with institutional changes and evolving economic reforms on the macro level of political economy. The two chapters focus on the financial system regulation and economic growth policies as two central elements of Japan’s political economy and key drivers in the evolution of its economy. Their analysis allows us to better understand the interplay between reforms and change in consumption credit and to reinterpret Abenomics as a manifestation of ongoing contradictions within the Japanese political economy. The chapters were originally published in a special issue in Japan Forum.

Author : Martin Fackler,Yoichi Funabashi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781440862878

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Reinventing Japan by Martin Fackler,Yoichi Funabashi Pdf

Highly readable yet deeply researched, this book serves as an essential guide to the many ways in which Japan has risen to become one of the world's most creative and innovative societies. During its so-called Lost Decades, Japan has quietly reinvented itself from a nation with an economy playing catch-up into a global leader in innovation and creativity, one whose "soft power" extends from postmodern architecture to pluripotent stem cells. Written by a dozen experts in their fields, including architect Kengo Kuma, designer of Tokyo's 2020 Olympic stadium, this book describes Japan's contributions to the world in fields ranging from fashion and pop culture to development aid and historical reconciliation. In addition, it demonstrates how Japan has led efforts to contend with several social and economic challenges facing the entire developed world, including demographic aging, rising health-care costs, and wasteful consumption. Using these accomplishments as evidence, it argues that, in an era of questions surrounding the capability of American leadership, the time has come for Japan to step into a new role as a purveyor of models and values better suited to today's multipolar and diverse world.

Author : Peter Drysdale,Luke Gower
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415174341

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The Japanese Economy by Peter Drysdale,Luke Gower Pdf

Author : Richard M. Steers,Luciara Nardon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317465560

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Managing in the Global Economy by Richard M. Steers,Luciara Nardon Pdf

This definitive text will bring a new level of professionalism to courses in International Management. Truly global in focus, it is a comprehensive primer on the challenges and prospects of international management, with a particular emphasis on developing global managers who are skilled in economics, strategy, and general management. In addition, the authors help readers develop an in-depth understanding of the role of cultural differences in managerial effectiveness. The text is divided into three parts: the emerging global economy; culture, organization, and strategy; and managing global operations. Management topics include: organizing for international business, global business strategy, building strategic alliances, international negotiations, global staffing, managing a competitive workforce, TQM and employee involvement, and managing multicultural teams. Throughout the text, the authors integrate current conceptual materials on global management with in-depth country analyses and real-world business examples. Each chapter begins with an opening case vignette (from countries around the world) and concludes with a list of key terms and in-depth exercises (Global Manager's Workbook). The text also provides country ratings for 50 countries on economic activity, political risk, and cultural differences, as well as a 35 item instrument for students to measure their own cultural awareness

Author : H. Kumon,T. Abo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230523654

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The Hybrid Factory in Europe by H. Kumon,T. Abo Pdf

This book evaluates the conditions for the international transfer of Japanese-style management and production techniques to Europe. Using an investigation of Japanese manufacturing companies with operations in Europe, the authors shed light on 'hybrid factories', which combine elements of Japanese and European management and production techniques.

Author : Jose Luis Alvarez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349258994

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The Diffusion and Consumption of Business Knowledge by Jose Luis Alvarez Pdf

In the context of a united Europe the influence of business knowledge has become increasingly relevant, as managers, employees and organisations have to learn new practices and techniques in response to new knowledge and institutions. This book addresses the way in which administrative knowledge is produced, diffused and consumed in Europe by academics, management gurus, publishing houses, consultants and practitioners. It also looks at its impact on European business systems and management practices.