21st-Century Japanese Management: New Systems, Lasting Values

ISBN-13: 9781403998767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 194 str.

Dr James C. Abegglen

Opis

Japan's economy and businesses are entering this century with new management systems but their values unchanged. Drawing on the author's analysis of the 1950s, financial systems, personnel management methods, role of the corporation and R&D capabilities are re-assessed to provide a comprehensive analysis of Japan's financial and industrial changes.

Recenzje

'Abegglen's work is a refreshing and authoritative analysis of Japan's competitive potential in the new century.' - Richard Donkin, World Business

'Useful insights for anyone concerned with the subject.' - Long Range Planning

'...the book is a highly accessible and readable account of Japanese management,' Mari Sako, British Journal of Industrial Relations, March 2008 0007-1080

Spis treści

List of Tables Abegglen in Japan Preface Perspectives on Half a Century Redesign for a Competitive Future The Graying of Japan: The End of Growth? Japanese Style Management A Perfect Financial Storm The Research Imperative Corporate Governance: US Model? Japan Model? The Mysterious Foreign Investors The Changing World Map of the Kaisha Index

O autorze

JAMES C. ABEGGLEN is Chairman of Asia Advisory Services and a Director of Learning Technologies, the Nippon Fund and Nikkei Science. He serves on the advisory committees of Grove International, Summitomo, Shoji and the American Management Association. A founding partner of the Boston Consulting Group, he established the first international consultancy in Japan for BCG in 1966. He started his own firm in 1984 as he assumed a professorship at Sophia University. He has spent more than thirty years in Japan as a management consultant and academic, and is now a Japanese citizen.