| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index. |
| 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? -- Appendix: Changes in Job Tenure. |
| Summary |
Following the troubled 1990s, Whittaker and Inagami explore the changes in employment practices, corporate governance and management priorities, drawing on rich original data and providing in-depth analysis of Hitachi, a leading electric company and enterprise group. Ideal reading for readers looking for fresh perspectives on the future of Japanese business. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Organizational change -- Japan.
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Organizational change. |
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Japan. |
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Organizational change -- Japan -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
Industrial management -- Japan.
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Industrial management. |
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Industrial management -- Japan -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Whittaker, D. H. (D. Hugh)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Inagami, Takeshi, 1944- New community firm. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521843707 (OCoLC)57166904 |
| ISBN |
9780511488610 (electronic book) |
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0511488610 (electronic book) |
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0511080514 (electronic book) |
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9780511080517 (electronic book) |
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0511121881 (electronic book) |
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9780511121883 (electronic book) |
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0511079753 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511079757 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9786610163274 |
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6610163278 |
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0521843707 (Cloth) |
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