Cultural and social dynamics

Author(s)

• 公文, 俊平 クモン, シュンペイ
• Rosovsky, Henry

Bibliographic Information

Cultural and social dynamics

edited by Shumpei Kumon and Henry Rosovsky

（The political economy of Japan / [under the general editorship of Yasusuke Murakami and Hugh T. Patrick], v. 3）

Stanford University Press, 1992

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-478) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the third and final volume of a series that constitutes a state-of-the-art analysis of Japan's phenomenal economic rise, its society, and its place in contemporary world affairs. The papers in these volumes are future-orientated - they raise questions about where Japan is going as it approaches the twenty-first century and offer insights about future trends, prospects, and problems. The present volume adds another dimension to the study of Japan's political economy: the introduction of some deeper, very slowly changing traits, more abstract and general propensities frequently described as group-orientatedness, diligence, vertical hierarchies, and so forth. These 12 essays by leading Japanese and American social scientists analyze certain neglected features of Japan's economic performance, such as the influence of cultural factors, the role of the legal system, political power, the educational system, and, most of all, the characteristic behaviour of Japanese firms (the so-called J. Firm), with special emphasis on types of networks.

Table of Contents

• Preface by the general editors
• Postscript
• Introduction Shumpei Kumon and Henry Rosovsky
• Part I. Broad Frameworks: 1. The cultural context of the Japanese political economy Robert J. Smith
• 2. Consensual governance: a study of law, culture, and the political economy of postwar Japan John O. Haley
• 3. Social-exchange aspects of the Japanese political economy: culture, efficiency, and change Yasusuke Murakami and Thomas P. Rohlen
• Part II. The J Firm and Networking: 4. Japan as a network society Shumpei Kumon
• 5. Decentralization-centralization in Japanese organisation: a duality principle Masahiko Aoki
• 6. The Japanese enterprise as a unified body of employees: origins and development Ryushi Iwata
• 7. Japan's corporate networks Ken-ichi Imai
• 8. The managerial intergration of Japanese business in America Thomas B. Lifson
• 9. Japan's industrial culture and labour-management relations Haruo Shimada
• 10. Some cultural and social bases of Japanese innovaton: small-group activities in comparative perspective Robert E. Cole
• Part III. trends: 11. Learning: the mobilization of knowledge in the Japanese political economy Thomas P. Rohlen
• 12. Gender and culture in the Japanese political economy: self-portrayals of prominent businesswomen Takie Sugiyama Lebra
• Notes
• Index of names
• General index.

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Details

• NCID: BA18454216
• ISBN:
  • 0804719918
  • 0804719926
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 494 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 332.1
  • NDC8 : 332.1
  • LCC : HC462
  • NDLC : DC55
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
  • LCSH : Japan -- Economic policy -- 1945-1989
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0119216X