A Japanese company in crisis : ideology, strategy and narrative
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A Japanese company in crisis : ideology, strategy and narrative
(RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Japan series, 1)
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, c2004
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  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 (p. [256]-259) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Japanese white-collar workers have been characterised by their intense loyalty and life-long commitment to their companies. This book is based on very extensive ethnographic research inside a Japanese insurance company during the period when the company was going through a major crisis which ended in the company's bankruptcy and collapse. It examines the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and related issues at a time when the established order and established attitudes were under threat. The wide range and detail of the reporting of workers' attitudes, often in their own words, sustained over a considerable timescale, makes this study a particularly valuable resource.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Economic background
- Chapter 3 The current situation
- Chapter 4 Restructuring
- Chapter 5 The company and change
- Chapter 6 The flowers of 1985
- Chapter 7 Ideology and economic strategising
- Chapter 8 Strategising during the filming of C-Life
- Chapter 9 Narrative and myth
- Chapter 10 C-Life goes under
- Chapter 11 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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