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Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture - An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France (Paperback)
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Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture - An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France (Paperback)
Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
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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.
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