Japanese Workplaces in Transition
Employee Perceptions
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Open AccessHow HR managers develop ideas about HR reform: the role of inter-corporate knowledge exchange in Japan
Following a call for actor-centric research in HRM, we look at the modes how HR managers acquire HR knowledge. Our interview study with HR managers of large established companies in Japan finds a clear prefere...
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Business models, stakeholders and capabilities in co** with societal grand challenges: the case of Japan’s convenience stores
In Japan, convenience store operators have hailed their stores as “social infrastructure.” Policy makers have acknowledged this role, striving to involve the private sector in the process of strengthening comm...
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Outward globalization and collaboration in Asia: Revisiting the global business landscape
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Race for the exits – The unraveling of Japan’s system for social protection
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Changing Workplaces — Blogging about Work
The above citation is from the blog of a Japanese employee. Although just a short paragraph written in June 2001, it still provides information on the activities of a company, responses by its employees, specu...
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Conclusions — Importance of Perceptions, Employability and Directions of Change
Fooling, being fooled, mutual deception? Can this be the final, simple conclusion of this book about the future relationship between employees and companies in Japan? Surely not! Too many writers have shown in...
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Experiencing Corporate Reorganization
The above diary entry was written under the somewhat paradoxical headline “bright and clear weather” (the writer reports daily on the weather). The writer understands the situation of his company very well, an...
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Taking Up Non-Regular Employment
Looking at restructuring and changing employment principles, the previous chapters focused mostly on the situation of male employees who were regularly employed at larger Japanese corporations. Indeed, the tre...
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Japanese Corporations under Pressure: Changing Employment Practices in Three Industries
Japanese companies came under intense pressure to change employment practices from the 1990s onwards. These pressures and the companies’ responses will be outlined by looking at three industries. The electroni...
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Facing Changing Principles of Employment
The writers of the above three blog excerpts take up different aspects of work under the principles of lifelong employment, seniority payment and advancement. The first writer expresses his joy at the fact tha...
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Working as a Non-Regular Employee
Companies are increasingly relying on non-regular employees in their operations, and as the above blog entry outlines, are even assigning some of them leadership roles. Thus, when discussing non-regular work i...
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Working for Japanese Corporations in China: A Qualitative Study
China's economy is emerging rapidly and foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) are playing an important role in this process. MNCs no longer view China just as a place for cheap production, but increasingly...
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Veränderungen im japanischen Distributionssystem
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Half a Century of Dynamics in Japanese Retailing
This book has looked at innovations and dynamics in Japanese retailing over a period of fifty years. During this period Japanese retail companies have continuously shown their innovative strength. What started...
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Innovation and Dynamics in Retailing
Japanese retailing and distribution systems have been described variously as a non-tariff barrier to market entry for foreign products, an appendix to Japan’s social security system and labor market by providi...
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Retail Policy: A Law for Large Stores
In 1976, Izumiya announced its plans to open a store with a sales floor size of 10 415 square meters in Kyoto. Eighteen months later, the company managed to submit the developer’s report as required under the ...
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The 1990s: A Radically Different Environment
The 1990s proved to be a period of change and uncertainty for the Japanese economy and its players. Low growth rates, rising unemployment and a growing number of bankruptcies characterized a prolonged period o...
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Failure and Reorganization of the Mass Merchandising Sector
By the beginning of the 1990s, the group of leading companies of the general merchandising sector had remained basically unchanged for nearly two decades with the same companies occupying the upper spots conti...
