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Category : Decision making
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Ruth Taplin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134242859
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Demonstrates that Western individualism and Japanese groupism are not necessarily incompatible or mutually exclusive.

Author: Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520028579
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Jos Benders
Publisher: Purdue University Press
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Category : International trade
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Over the last four decades, many Japanese companies have opened branch offices or subsidiaries in the Netherlands. The same is true of Dutch companies in Japan. In these organisations, nationals with different cultural backgrounds worked together intensively and decisions of varying importance are made continuously. Effective co-operation and decision-making in such intercultural business settings require insight into each other’s ways of thinking. In this book, experienced authors from business and academia discuss Japanese-Dutch economic relationships against this background of similarities, differences and adaptations.

Author: Robert J. Ballon
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Category : Decision making
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Robert C. Marshall
Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
ISBN: 0939512173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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This study is a result of three continuous years of fieldwork in a hamlet in rural Japan. The data presented and analyzed here consist of records from participant observation, formal and informal interviews, casual conversation and formal questionnaires, and public and private documents. The subject of this research is group decision making, and the results of this process are, after all, a matter of public record. The major conclusions of this study are outlined in their simplest and most straightforward form. A hamlet is fundamentally a nexus for the organization of productive exchange among member households, the form of exchange through which two or more parties actively combine their resources to produce something of value not available, or as cheaply available, to any of them separately. Defection from productive exchange agreements by hamlet members is reduced by making access to future valuable transactions and corporate property contingent upon the integrity of each current exchange transaction. This method of combining a common interest in production with contingent access to productive resources is termed mutual investment and is the major source of consensus in hamlet decision making. When only cooperate resources are at issue, decisions regularly result in unanimity. When a course of action can be implemented only if hamlet members relinquish control over individually held resources, a division will emerge among the membership. Whether or not a formal vote is taken, the distribution of differing opinion will be known through more informal means of communication. In all cases of division, by the time the course of action to be implemented is formally announced, the minority in opposition will be extremely small. The question then must be resolved whether those in the minority will participate in the implementation or resign as hamlet members. This book is written with two rather disparate audiences in mind: readers interested primarily in exchange and decision-making phenomenon, on the one hand, and readers interested primarily in the unity of experience represented by the Japanese sensibility, on the other.

Author: Robert J. Ballon
Publisher: Sofia University Hikaku Bunka Kenkyujo
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Category : Decision making
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Toyohiro Kono
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110858711
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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This book tries to describe the formal long-range planning process of Japanese corporations, to analyze the formal strategic decision making process and to find theories through this analysis.

Author: Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520307100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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This book constitues the first attempt of its kinds to probe the major features of modern Japanese organization that have played such a critical role in Japan's extraordinarily rapid economic development. The contributors inclue prominent academic business consultants such a Peter Drucker of the United states and Kazuo Noda of Japan; Japanese government officials such as Yoshihisa Ojimi, former Administrative Vice-Minister of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and Taishiro Shirai, a member of the Central Labor Relations Commission; as well as outstanding Western experts on modern Japanese organization. The essays deal not only with Japanese government and business but also with teh structures of a newspaper and a university and with the role of Japanese intellectuals in modern organization. The portrait of Japanese organization that emerges is much more dynamic and volatile than has been generally supposed. One finds business and government managers creatively using so-called "traditional practices" in novel ways and undertaking bold departures to achieve new purposes. The findings contradict the view that decision sten from below. Not only do executive have an important role in initiating action; but lower-level officials function within a context defined by their superiors. Far greater tensions and conflict exist within organizations than is commonly reported by outsiders, especially in institutions like the university where conflicts often paralyze the decision-making process. Similarly, there is far greater divergence of interest among different sectors of society than one might infer from the stereotypical view of "Japan, Inc." And since the high level of consensus supporting the fundamental commitment to economic growth is now weakening increasing divergence may be anticipated in the future. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.