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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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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