The new community firm : employment, governance and management reform in Japan /

"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...

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Main Author: Inagami, Takeshi, 1944-
Other Authors: Whittaker, D. H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Company as community
  • The classic model : benchmark for change
  • Change and continuity
  • Company professionals and creative work
  • Corporate governance and managers' ideologies
  • Consolidated management and quasi internal labour markets
  • Summing up
  • Hitachi : a dancing giant
  • A victim of its own success?
  • Organization reform
  • Recasting the employment relationship
  • The impact on industrial relations
  • Evaluation
  • New model in the making?
  • Changes in job tenure.