The embedded corporation : corporate governance and employment relations in Japan and the United States
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The embedded corporation : corporate governance and employment relations in Japan and the United States
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 2007
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日本の人事部・アメリカの人事部 : 日米企業のコーポレート・ガバナンスと雇用関係
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"Third printing, and first paperback printing, with a new preface by the author, 2007"--T.p. verso
First published in hardcover in c2005
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-209) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In The Embedded Corporation, Sanford Jacoby traces this diversity to national differences in economic history and social norms, and, paradoxically, to global competition itself. The book's vantage point for exploring the varieties of capitalism is the human resource departments of large corporations, where changes in markets and technology turn into corporate labor policies affecting millions of workers. Despite some cross-fertilization, Japanese and American corporations maintain distinctive approaches to human resource management, which has important consequences for how firms compete, for corporate governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States.
The Embedded Corporation is a major contribution to our understanding of comparative management and the relationship between business, society, and the global economy.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition ix Preface xiii Chapter 1: Management and the Varieties of Capitalism 1 Chapter 2: Human Resources Departments in Large Japanese Firms: The Way It Was 21 Chapter 3: Inside Japanese Companies Today 41 Chapter 4: The Evolution of Human Resource Management in the United States 78 Chapter 5: Inside U.S. Companies Today 101 Chapter 6: Comparative Survey Data 131 Chapter 7: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead 157 Acknowledgments 175 Notes 179 Index 211
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