The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan

by D. Hugh Whittaker, Takeshi Inagami, D H Whittaker

Book Overview

After sweeping all before it in the 1980s, 'Japanese management' ran into trouble in the 1990s, especially in the high-tech industries, prompting many to declare it had outlived its usefulness. From the late 1990s leading companies embarked on wide-ranging reforms designed to restore their entrepreneurial vigour. For some, this spelled the end of Japanese management; for others, little had changed. From the perspective of the community firm, Inagami...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521172942
• ISBN13: 9780521172943
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"