Japanese management structures, 1920-80
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Japanese management structures, 1920-80
(Studies in the modern Japanese economy)
Macmillan, 1991
- : pbk
- : hard
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Part of a series on the modern Japanese economy which explores all the major areas of Japanese economic life, this book examines the managerial hierarchies of large-scale Japanese industrial companies since their emergence.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Management resources and the structures of modern firms: modern business enterprise and managerial hierarchies
- some implications of Chandler's hypotheses
- management resources and the types of hierarchies
- aspects of Japanese management structures. Part 2 The formation of managerial hierarchies 1920-40: management structures and large-scale industrial companies in pre-war Japan
- internalization of human resources
- management strategies and generating the flow of goods inside firms
- decentralized structures. Part 3 Holding companies and corporate control 1920-40: external institutions of pre-war large-scale industrial companies
- the development of holding companies
- corporate control and strategic decision making
- segmented allocation of management resources
- change and continuity during the war. Part 4 Hierarchies and federations in the post-war era: the post-war business groups and big business - new evidence
- the six largest business groups and the largest 100
- industrial companies - interpretation of evidence
- giant companies and their affiliated large-scale industrial firms. Part 5 The development of large-scale industrial companies 1950-80: large-scale firms and their products
- entry and exit
- their positions and sizes
- direction of development - mergers and horizontal combinations, vertical integration, diversification
- strategy and structure of Japanese firms. Part 6 The traditionally established companies in fabricated basic materials: textile companies
- paper, printing, and materials enterprises
- steel companies
- nonferrous metals companies. Part 7 New industries in the traditional companies: chemical and pharmaceutical companies
- electric and electronic companies
- heavy engineering companies. Part 8 New companies in the post-war mass market: food and drink companies
- oil companies
- automobile companies
- miscellaneous companies in durable consumer's goods. Part 9 Management resources and their development: the development of management structures in Japanese industrial companies
- the direction of the development of modern firms - types and stages.
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