Japanese Company in Crisis: Ideology, Strategy and Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780415346856 / Twarda / 2005 / 272 str.

Fiona Graham

Opis

This insightful book examines the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and related issues at a time when the established order and established attitudes were under threat.

Recenzje

'This book is a very useful study of employee's orientation to work and life...A Japanese Company in Crisis will be essential reading for Japan-watchers, and quite valuable for those interested in organizational ethnography more generally.' - Organization 13(1)

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Economic background; Chapter 3 The current situation; Chapter 4 Restructuring; Chapter 5 The company and change; Chapter 6 The flowers of 1985; Chapter 7 Ideology and economic strategising; Chapter 8 Strategising during the filming of C-Life; Chapter 9 Narrative and myth; Chapter 10 C-Life goes under; Chapter 11 Conclusion Bibliography Index;

O autorze

Fiona Graham was the first Western woman to study at Keio University, Tokyo. Upon graduation, she worked at a traditional Japanese company in the life insurance industry. She completed her doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and has worked since then writing and directing anthropological documentaries. She is the author of Inside the Japanese Company, also published by RoutledgeCurzon.