The Japanese Factory Revisited
Author : Robert Mortimer Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Factory system
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Author : Robert Mortimer Marsh
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Factory system
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Author : M. Itoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 2000-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230503241
The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its successes in forming a company-centred society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth capitalism. Successful spread of information technologies resulted in deterioration of economic life among working people and a wide fall in birth rate. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble swelled, so as to prepare a prolonged depression throughout the 1990s. Neoliberalism with spiral reversal of capitalist development toward more competitive markets rather promoted difficulties among people. A lucid reconsideration of neoliberalism through concrete Japanese experiences.
Author : James C. Abegglen
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Harold Oaklander
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Job security
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Factories
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Author : Hiroko Oyamada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081122886X
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while—it could be weeks or years—the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid—and sometimes surreal—portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.
Author : Robert Mortimer Marsh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400870275
While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : T. Inagami
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139442930
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, in this 2005 book, drawing on a rich combination of survey data and an in-depth study of Hitachi, Japan's leading general electric company and enterprise group. They find change and continuity, the emergence of a 'reformed model', but not the demise of the community firm. The model addresses both economic vitality and social fairness, within limits. This book offers unique insights into changes in Japanese management, corporations and society.
Author : Fiona Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134400365
Graham explores the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and on related issues. Based on extensive original research inside a Japanese insurance company (C-Life), which subsequently went bankrupt, the book shows that attitudes towards lifetime employment, company loyalty and the other characteristics of Japanese working life, which are often portrayed in stereotype form in the West, are in fact more complicated than is at first apparent.
Author : Lawrence Olson
Publisher :
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Business
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