This book highlights the role that national culture plays in shaping the emergent relationship between IT and organisations. It also shows the mechanisms through which national culture influences IT use. Although a number of studies have investigated relationships between IT and organisations, relatively few studies have conducted international comparisons on the theme, and even fewer have focused on national culture in their analytical framework. The book is based on extensive research undertaken with British and Japanese manufacturing companies, providing evidence that national culture does...
This book highlights the role that national culture plays in shaping the emergent relationship between IT and organisations. It also shows the mechani...
Following the burst of the "economic bubble" in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. Changes in corporate governance were widely discussed during that decade in studies on "Japanese management." These discussions have resulted in little progress, however, since Americanization became the dominant discourse concerning governance and the management system. There have been few studies conducted from an academic point of view on the internal aspects of organizations that practice traditional Japanese management theory.
This book examines...
Following the burst of the "economic bubble" in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. Changes in cor...
Following the burst of the "economic bubble" in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. The aggregation of the new management system in Japanese companies is regarded as a distinctive Japanese-style system of management.
Following the burst of the "economic bubble" in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. The aggregation o...
