Japanese Workplaces in Transition
Employee Perceptions
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Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Management
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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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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...
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Newcomers in Japanese Retailing
While the Japanese retail climate during the 1990s has been described overall as rough and highly challenging, eventually even leading to the downfall of prominent retailers, this period has not been equally d...
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Building Supply Chains
Besides changes in the legal environment, consumer demand and entrepreneurial climate, the years of the 1990s and since have also seen major developments in the procurement markets. As in most other areas, cha...
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Convenience Stores and the Organization of E-Commerce
Previous chapters of this book have dealt with the interaction between the availability of new technologies and knowledge and the emergence of new retail formats in Japan. For the period of the 1990s and since...
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New Techniques and the Emergence of the General Superstore (1950s and 1960s)
The 1950s and 1960s saw the introduction of new retail techniques culminating in the formation of a number of new retail formats and companies that to this day play a dominant role in Japanese retailing. In th...
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Diversification of Retail Formats
During the 1970s, the spectrum of retail formats widened further. Several new retail formats were introduced, some gaining considerable prominence within a short period of time. Developments in this period wer...
