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Managing "Modernity - Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia (Hardcover)
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Managing "Modernity - Work, Community, and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia (Hardcover)
Series: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics
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In "Managing "Modernity,"" Rudra Sil examines how
institution-builders respond to the competing influences of
institutional models and inherited social legacies as they attempt
to generate and sustain authority in late-industrializing
societies. Through a historical and comparative study of
large-scale enterprises in Japan and Russia, the book examines the
impact of different institution-building strategies on managerial
authority, invoking the experience of postwar Japan to highlight
the benefits of a syncretic approach that selectively integrates
adaptable features of borrowed institutions with portable norms
inherited from preexisting communities.
"Managing "Modernity"" engages a variety of intellectual
perspectives in the social sciences. The theoretical approach
represents a conscious effort to overcome the contentious debates
in political science and sociology among proponents of historical
institutionalism, cultural analysis, and rational-choice theory.
The substantive argument draws on, and partially integrates,
concepts and findings from comparative politics, economic
sociology, industrial relations, organization theory, business
management, and the political economy of Japan and Russia.
In light of ongoing debates over the significance and impact of
"globalization," the eclectic and integrative approach in "Managing
"Modernity"" offers a fresh and provocative contribution that will
interest scholars and graduate students across a variety of
disciplines and subfields. It offers compelling insights to anyone
generally concerned with the social forces that facilitate or
hinder the diffusion of ideas and institutions across national
boundaries.
Rudra Sil is Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the
Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania.
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