The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations / Edition 1

by Franz-Jurgen Richter

Overview

This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by which a Japanese company organizes itself, exploring such areas as networks, informatics, quality control circles and human systems management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415131919
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/14/1996
Series:	Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business , #1
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Introduction and background, I. Philosophy of Organizational Dynamism, 1. Tsuyoshi Numagami, Toshizumi Ohta and Ikujiro Nonaka: Self-renewal of Corporate Organizations: Equilibrium, Self-sustaining, and Self-renewing models, 2. Haruo Hata and Charles Adamson: Self-Organization in Informatics, 3. Magoroh Maruyama: Mindscape Theory and its Relevance for Japanese Management, 4.Vera Calenbuhr : What can we learn from biological networks? II. Organizational Behavior and the Management of the Firm, 5. Tetsunori Koizumi: Japanese Mangagement as a Set of Cybernetic Principles of Managing Human Systems, 6. Haruo Takagi: Group Decision Making in the 'Self-organization' Perspective, 7. Kenshu Kikuzawa: Progressive and Degenerative Problemshifts of Organization - Organizational Evolution based on Critical Rationalism, 8. Shigekazu Ishihara, Keiko Ishihara, Mitsuo Nagamachi and Alfredo Pinochet: Neutral Network Simulation of QC Circle Activities, III. Symbiotic Interaction with the Environment, 9. Frank-Jurgen Richter and Yoshiya Teramoto : Population Ecology versus Network Dynamics: From Evolution to Co-evolution, 10. Milan Zeleny: Comparative Management Systems: Trade-Offs-Free Concept, 11. Nobuyuki Chikudate: Communicating through On-line Database Systems: A Strategy for Monitoring Corporate Environments, 12. Kenji Tanaka: Autonomous Anticipative Management and its Evolutionary Process, Bibliography, Index