Trends in Japanese management: an overview of embedded continuities and disembedded discontinuities
In this paper we consider the accounts of post-war Japan's economic development in terms of aconsideration of the argument from 'embeddedness'. We note the dangers implicit in approaches that tend to profferover-socialized accounts of action and stress the importance of institutionally and organizationally specific levels ofanalysis. We establish the significance of the immediate post-war period for analysis of Japanese organizations, andlook at the continuities and discontinuities in their development up to the present. The paper analyses continuitiesin terms of the maintenance of a long-term orientation and global vision and that organizations remain bothcompetitive and cooperative. The discontinuities have emerged in the last decade, since the economic ills ofJapan became evident. These include a shift from a growth emphasis to the balancing of multiple goals; theemergence of new forms of competitive strategy, in the form of: alliances and cooperation: changing conceptionsof careers: relaxation of the centralisation of authority; a shift from lifetime employment to employability; largerdifferentiation of wages and promotion opportunities in the status ladder system, and the increased scope forinitiative and consensus. We conclude with some implications of the analysis for future research.
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2006
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Authors: | Clegg Stewart ; Kono Toyohiro |
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Springer |
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