This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by which a Japanese company organizes itself, exploring such areas as networks, informatics, quality control circles and human systems management.
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The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations is a thought-provoling collection of essays about Japanese organizations that forces us to ask if there are country-specific patterns of organization Journal of Japanese Studies.
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towards a theory of organizational dynanism,
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holonic loop, network dynamics approach, anticipative management, inconclusive shifts, mindscape types, human group behaviour, historically newer form, managing human systems, sophisticated functional form, opportunistic surveillance, epistemological types, programmed maintenance, population ecology approach, comprehensive entity, intellectual productivity, synapse weights, adaptive maintenance, cybernetic principles, second cybernetics, multidivisional form, human systems management, eleven jurors, dynamic cooperation, emergent leader, tacit knowing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Manufacturing Strategy by Terry Hill on page 177
- Managing Public Relations CL by James E. Grunig on page 188
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- The East Asian Development Model: Economic Growth, Institutional Failure and the Aftermath of the Crisis by Frank-Jurgen Richter in Front Matter, page 312, and page 330
- Business Networks in Asia: Promises, Doubts, and Perspectives by Frank Richter on page 88, page 248, and Back Matter
- International Production Networks in Asia: Rivalry or Riches (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business) by Michael Borrus in Front Matter
- The History of Mitsubishi Corporation in London: 1915 to Present Day (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business) by Pernille Rudlin in Front Matter
- Chinese Corporate Identity (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business) by Peter Peverelli in Front Matter
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