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In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a
collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in
modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor,
component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike
other books in this area, this book focuses on a broader range of
Japanese industries from the post world war era to the modern day
and considers the relationships between the characteristics of
innovation and the features of Japanese society. These chapters
demonstrate Japan's shift from being product-oriented and domestic
to being business system-oriented and global. Meanwhile the process
of innovation in Japan continues to include the tendency of
eliminating uncertainty through intimate in-process interaction
between different functions, rather than through preset rule or
contracts. This book goes some way in challenging accepted notions
of Japanese innovation, emphasising new and diverse trends and
practises.
In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a
collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in
modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor,
component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike
other books in this area, this book focuses on a broader range of
Japanese industries from the post world war era to the modern day
and considers the relationships between the characteristics of
innovation and the features of Japanese society. These chapters
demonstrate Japan's shift from being product-oriented and domestic
to being business system-oriented and global. Meanwhile the process
of innovation in Japan continues to include the tendency of
eliminating uncertainty through intimate in-process interaction
between different functions, rather than through preset rule or
contracts. This book goes some way in challenging accepted notions
of Japanese innovation, emphasising new and diverse trends and
practises.
The book systematizes the materiality concept, which has been
fragmented in various fields of business administration and
sometimes identified with interpretive postmodern business
administration, along with the meta-theories discussed in the
humanities and social sciences that aim to overcome humanistic
dualism. This book is devoted to developing the concept of
materiality as the theoretical frontier that has not been fully
addressed in management studies, ranging from daily work practices
in office spaces to the manualization of high-tech aircraft
maintenance, to quantified personnel evaluations and fuel
efficiency standards, to innovation using advanced scientific
equipment. Institutional organization theory focuses on the
material on which the symbolism of institutions is inscribed.
Organizational routine research seeks to unravel the material
dimension of organizational performative practices. Organizational
wrongdoing research critiques material measurement practice based
on social constructionism. Critical management studies focus on the
material space as a way to counter the humanistic concept of time.
Science-based innovation challenges sociomaterialistic science
practices that originate from devices for management of technology
(MOT) that have not been able to penetrate into the workings of
science and technology, actually. Up-and-coming researchers in
Japanese management studies conduct empirical research that draws
out the implications of the concept of materiality.
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