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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.
""The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations is a thought-provoling collection of essays about Japanese organizations that forces us to ask if there are country-specific patterns of organization "Journal of Japanese Studies."
| List of figures | |
| List of tables | |
| List of contributors | |
| Introduction and background | |
| Philosophy of Organizational Dynamism | |
| Self-renewal of Corporate Organizations: Equilibrium, Self-sustaining, and Self-renewing models | |
| Self-Organization in Informatics | |
| Mindscape Theory and its Relevance for Japanese Management | |
| What can we learn from biological networks? | |
| Organizational Behavior and the Management of the Firm | |
| Japanese Mangagement as a Set of Cybernetic Principles of Managing Human Systems | |
| Group Decision Making in the 'Self-organization' Perspective | |
| Progressive and Degenerative Problemshifts of Organization - Organizational Evolution based on Critical Rationalism | |
| Neutral Network Simulation of QC Circle Activities | |
| Symbiotic Interaction with the Environment | |
| Population Ecology versus Network Dynamics: From Evolution to Co-evolution | |
| Comparative Management Systems: Trade-Offs-Free Concept | |
| Communicating through On-line Database Systems: A Strategy for Monitoring Corporate Environments | |
| Autonomous Anticipative Management and its Evolutionary Process | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780415131919
ISBN-10: 041513191X
Series: Routledge International Studies in Asia-Pacific Business
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 224
Published: 4th April 1996
Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 13.8
x 2.2
Weight (kg): 0.43
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