The Japanese Industrial System

Charles J. McMillan

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9783110150872
• eBook ISBN: 9783110812879
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

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Table of contents

• Preface to the Third Edition
• I The Japanese Industrial System
• Chapter 1. Japan and the New Global Economy
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Japan as Industrial Superpower
• 1.3 Paradoxes of Asian Growth
• 1.4 Japan as Learner and Teacher
• 1.5 From Follower to Leader
• 1.6 Strategies for the 21st Century
• 1.7 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 2. Samurai Management: A Framework for Analysis
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Japanese Society: Adversity Management
• 2.3 Hardware and Software as Core Concepts
• 2.4 Japanese Hardware: A Comparative Perspective
• 2.5 Organizational Software Systems
• 2.6 Summary and Conclusions
• II Japan’s Societal Policies
• Chapter 3. Japan Inc.: Business-Government Relations
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 The Social Origins of Business-Government
• 3.3 The Structure of Modern Government
• 3.4 Government and Big Business
• 3.5 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 4. The Visible Hand: Industrial Planning
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Origins of Industrial Planning
• 4.3 Japan’s Five Year Plan
• 4.4 Industrial Structure Goals
• 4.5 Resource Dependence Planning
• 4.6 Portfolio Approach to Sectors
• 4.7 Japan’s Export Strategy
• 4.8 Japan’s Sunset Industries
• 4.9 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 5. Technology and the Knowledge Economy
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Technology and the Economy
• 5.3 The Organization of Science in Japan
• 5.4 Formulating Science Policy
• 5.5 Technological Diffusion
• 5.6 Creative Technology Policies
• 5.7 Technology Policy in Comparative Perspective
• 5.8 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 6. Asian Wall Street: Japanese Banking and Finance
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Financial Policy and Economic Development
• 6.3 Japan’s Banking System: An Overview
• 6.4 From Competition Within Japan
• 6.5 ... to Tomorrow, the World
• 6.6 Summary and Conclusions
• III The Corporate System
• Chapter 7. Samurai Education and Management Recruitment
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Education and the Meiji Legacy
• 7.3 The Post-War Reforms
• 7.4 Social Origins of the Managerial Elite
• 7.5 Japanese Management Education
• 7.6 Elite Exclusion: Women in Japan
• 7.7 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 8. Management Strategy and Organization
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Strategy and Structure in Context
• 8.3 The Enterprise Union
• 8.4 Software Management Systems
• 8.5 Quality Control Circles
• 8.6 Organizational Design Issues
• 8.7 Time Horizons
• 8.8 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 9. Human Resource Strategies and Work
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Two Models of Labour-Management
• 9.3 Type A: North America
• 9.4 Type B: Japan
• 9.5 Applying Software Techniques
• 9.6 Organizational Demographics
• 9.7 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 10. Production and Operations Management
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Origins of Production Strategy
• 10.3 Progress Cost Curves
• 10.4 Kanban Inventory System
• 10.5 Kanban in Practice
• 10.6 Robotics
• 10.7 Summary and Conclusions
• IV Japan and the World Economy
• Chapter 11. Japanese Marketing: From Sogo Shosha to the Big Mac
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Trading Firms: Concepts and Definitions
• 11.3 Sogo Shosha in Practice
• 11.4 Trading Firms and Japanese Distribution
• 11.5 Japan’s New Service Economy
• 11.6 JIT Marketing: The Retailing Revolution
• 11.7 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 12. The Acid Test: Japanese Management Abroad
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 Japanese Investment: Past Trends
• 12.3 Overseas Investment: New Directions
• 12.4 Japanese Multinationals
• 12.5 Exports vs. FDI: U.S.-Japan Comparisons
• 12.6 Transferring Japanese Software Management
• 12.7 Japan’s Joint Venture Alternative
• 12.8 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 13. The Globalization of Japan
• 13.1 Introduction
• 13.2 Are the Japanese too Efficient?
• 13.3 Guns and Butter: Japanese Defence Issues
• 13.4 Pacific Rim and Pacific Century?
• 13.5 Summary and Conclusions
• Chapter 14. Samurai Duel: Learning from Japan
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 Japan as Teacher
• 14.3 New Trade Patterns
• 14.4 Management Changes
• 14.5 A Final Word
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index