Japanese Business

Cultural Perspectives

Edited by Subhash Durlabhji & Norton E. Marks

Subjects: Business Education
Paperback : 9780791412527, 388 pages, January 1993
Hardcover : 9780791412510, 388 pages, January 1993

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Table of contents

Foreword by Michael A. Cusumano

Acknowledgments

Introduction

SECTION I: THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF JAPANESE BUSINESS

1. The Source of Japanese Management
Kunio Odaka

2. Japan's Matrix of Nature, Culture, and Technology
Tobioka Ken

3. Confucianism and Japanese Modernization: A Study of Shibusawa Eiichi
Kuo-hui Tai

4. The Influence of Confucianism and Zen on the Japanese Organization
Subhash Durlabhji

SECTION II: COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN JAPAN

5. Public and Private Self in Communicating with Japan
Dean C. Barnlund

6. The Vocabulary of Human Relationaships in Japan
Edward T. Hall and Mildred R. Hall

7. Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan
Harumi Befu

8. An Ethnography of Dinner Entertainment in Japan
Harumi Befu

SECTION III: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF JAPANESE BUSINESS

9. The Institutional Foundations of Japanese Industrial Policy
Chalmers Johnson

10. Work Rules in Japan
Toshiaki Ohta

11. Learning and Working in Japan
Merry I. White

12. "Spiritual Education" in a Japanese Bank
Thomas P. Rohlen

SECTION IV: MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING IN JAPAN

13. A Guide to Japanese Business Practices
Mayumi Otsubo

14. Strategic Planning in Japan
Milton C. Lauenstein

15. Hiring Women Managers in Japan: An Alternative for Foreign Employers
Paul Lansing and Kathryn Ready

16. Continuity and Change in Japanese Management
Tomasz Mroczkowski and Masao Hanaoka

17. Market Research the Japanese Way
Johny K. Johansson and Ikujiro Nonaka

18. Distribution in Japan: Problems and Changes
Michael R. Czinkota

SECTION V: MANUFACTURING: THE JAPANESE APPROACH

19. Manufacturing Innovation: Lessons from the Japanese Auto Industry
Michael A. Cusumano

20. The Myth of the Cooperative Single Source
John Ramsay

21. Another Hidden Edge--Japanese Management Accounting
Toshiro Hiromoto

Notes

Glossary and Index of Japanese Words and Phrases

Contributors

Index

Description

This book brings together the best writing on Japanese business in a comprehensive reader, illustrating the impact of Japanese culture and lifeways on all facets of business behavior. The authors examine not only Japanese management, but also production, accounting, marketing, distribution, law, and interpersonal relationships. Essays include analyses by businessmen, management scholars, anthropologists, and lawyers, all in one accessible volume for those concerned with Japanese business performance, the international business climate, and cooperative ventures between cultures and corporations.

Subhash Durlabhji is Associate Professor of Business at Northwestern State University. Norton E. Marks is Professor of Marketing at California State University, San Bernadino.

Reviews

"Understanding Japan is obviously important, and the cultural approach, while not the only one, is essential. In my own experience of briefing American businesspersons assigned to Asia I have found a great deficiency in basic knowledge that a book such as this would go far to correct.

"This is an excellent volume on Japanese business, representing a variety of points of view within the broad context of a cultural approach. There is variety, balance, and enough explanation to guide and motivate the reader. The variety of disciplines presented—anthropology, sociology, management, economics—is also useful. " — Steven I. Levine, Duke University