The dynamics of Japanese organizations
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The dynamics of Japanese organizations
(Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific business, 2)
Routledge, 1996
Available at 80 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  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
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by which a Japanese company organizes itself, exploring such areas as networks, informatics, quality control circles and human systems management.
Table of Contents
List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Introduction and background, I. Philosophy of Organizational Dynamism, 1. Tsuyoshi Numagami, Toshizumi Ohta and Ikujiro Nonaka: Self-renewal of Corporate Organizations: Equilibrium, Self-sustaining, and Self-renewing models, 2. Haruo Hata and Charles Adamson: Self-Organization in Informatics, 3. Magoroh Maruyama: Mindscape Theory and its Relevance for Japanese Management, 4.Vera Calenbuhr : What can we learn from biological networks? II. Organizational Behavior and the Management of the Firm, 5. Tetsunori Koizumi: Japanese Mangagement as a Set of Cybernetic Principles of Managing Human Systems, 6. Haruo Takagi: Group Decision Making in the 'Self-organization' Perspective, 7. Kenshu Kikuzawa: Progressive and Degenerative Problemshifts of Organization - Organizational Evolution based on Critical Rationalism, 8. Shigekazu Ishihara, Keiko Ishihara, Mitsuo Nagamachi and Alfredo Pinochet: Neutral Network Simulation of QC Circle Activities, III. Symbiotic Interaction with the Environment, 9. Frank-Jurgen Richter and Yoshiya Teramoto : Population Ecology versus Network Dynamics: From Evolution to Co-evolution, 10. Milan Zeleny: Comparative Management Systems: Trade-Offs-Free Concept, 11. Nobuyuki Chikudate: Communicating through On-line Database Systems: A Strategy for Monitoring Corporate Environments, 12. Kenji Tanaka: Autonomous Anticipative Management and its Evolutionary Process, Bibliography, Index
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