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Japan Anthropology Workshop Ser.: Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture : An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France by Mitchell Sedgwick (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100415446783
ISBN-139780415446785
eBay Product ID (ePID)62279100
Product Key Features
Number of Pages230 Pages
Publication NameGlobalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture : An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
SubjectOrganizational Behavior, Globalization, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International / General, Anthropology / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
AuthorMitchell Sedgwick
SeriesJapan Anthropology Workshop Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2007-026822
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentPart 1: Siting an Organisation 1. Introduction 2. Japan's Globalisations and a 'Subsidiary' in France Part 2: Organising Persons in Places 3. Personalising Socio-Technical Relations 4. Translating Power in Hierarchy: Seen and Unseen Organising 5. Mobilising Architectures of Timing and Spacing: Ethnographies of Locations, Histories of Social Relations Part 3: Incorporating Cultures: Local Reductions, Global Repercussions 6. Circulating others Among Japanese Managers: Perceiving Difference, Explaining to Ourselves 7. Postscript: Circulating Others among Anthropologists: Perceiving Similarity, Examining Ourselves
SynopsisGlobalization - the global movements of persons, products, capital, technologies and images - is increasingly taking place within the context of cross-cultural organizations. This book examines the nature of global cross-cultural organizational interactions. Based on a detailed study of everyday workplace practices, and change, in a subsidiary of a large Japanese consumer electronics multinational in France, it argues that Japanese corporate 'know how' stems as much from Japanese organizational culture, which is itself a powerful reflector of Japanese cultural forms, as from technological innovation and financial 'clout'. It goes on to explore how Japanese managers and engineers cope when working with local non-Japanese staff, who hold their own very distinctive cultural and organizational inclinations, showing how Japanese organizational culture does and does not adapt in overseas settings. Globalising Japanese Organisational Culture concludes by arguing that the insights provided by the intimate study of persons interacting within and across organizations is crucial for understanding globalization fully, and that this poses important challenges for established organization theory as well as for analysis of globalization by anthropologists and other social scientists., Globalisation is increasingly taking place within the context of cross-cultural organisations. This book examines the nature of such global cross-cultural organisational interaction, providing a detailed study of everyday workplace practices, and change, in the subsidiary of a large Japanese consumer electronics company in France., Globalisation - the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images - increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the most powerful of which are multinational corporations. Based in an ethnographic analysis of cross-cultural social interactions in everyday workplace practices at a subsidiary of an elite, Japanese consumer electronics multinational in France, this book intimately examines, and theorises, contemporary global dynamics. Japanese corporate 'know-how' is described not simply as the combination of technological innovation riding on financial 'clout' but as a reflection of Japanese social relations, powerfully expressed in Japanese organisational dynamics. The book details how Japanese organisational power does and does not adapt in overseas settings: how Japanese managers and engineers negotiate conflicts between their understanding of appropriate practices with those of local, non-Japanese staff - in this case, French managers and engineers - who hold their own distinctive cultural and organisational inclinations in the workplace. The book argues that the insights provided by the intimate study of persons interacting within and across organisations is crucial to a fulsome understanding of globalisation. This is assisted, further, by a grounded examination of how 'networks'- as social constructions - are both expanded and bounded, a move which assists in collapsing the common reliance on micro and macro levels of analysis in considering global phenomena. The book poses important theoretical and methodological challenges for organisational studies as well as for analysis of the forces of globalisation by anthropologists and other social scientists.
LC Classification NumberHD2907.S4125 2007
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