Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An Ethnography of a Japanese

Description: Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture by Mitchell Sedgwick Globalization is increasingly taking place within the context of cross-cultural organizations. This book examines the nature of such global cross-cultural organizational interaction, providing a detailed study of everyday workplace practices, and change, in the subsidiary of a large Japanese consumer electronics company in France. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Back Cover 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 describes, and theorises, contemporary global dynamics. Japanese corporate "know how" is explained 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 then examines how Japanese organisational power does and does not adapt in overseas settings: how Japanese managers negotiate conflicts between their understanding of appropriate practices with those of local, non-Japanese staff, e.g., in this case, French 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" - based, as they must be, in social relations - are both expanded and bounded, a discussion 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. Author Biography Mitchell W. Sedgwick is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, and Director of the Europe Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He was formerly Associate Director of the Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Yasuda Fellow at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and affiliated with Kings College, University of Cambridge. During the 1980s Dr Sedgwick was a consulting organisational anthropologist in South East Asia and West Africa for the World Bank, and later worked in Cambodia on its first post war election for the United Nations. Table of Contents Part 1: Siting an Organisation 1. Introduction 2. Japans Globalisations and a Subsidiary in France Part 2: Organising Persons in Places 3. Personalising Socio-Technical Relations 4. Translating Power in Hierarchy: Seen and Unseen Organising 5. Mobilising Architectures of Timing and Spacing: Ethnographies of Locations, Histories of Social Relations Part 3: Incorporating Cultures: Local Reductions, Global Repercussions 6. Circulating others Among Japanese Managers: Perceiving Difference, Explaining to Ourselves 7. Postscript: Circulating Others among Anthropologists: Perceiving Similarity, Examining Ourselves Long Description Globalization - the global movements of persons, products, capital, technologies and images - is increasingly taking place within the context of cross-cultural organizations. This book examines the nature of global cross-cultural organizational interactions. Based on a detailed study of everyday workplace practices, and change, in a subsidiary of a large Japanese consumer electronics multinational in France, it argues that Japanese corporate know how stems as much from Japanese organizational culture, which is itself a powerful reflector of Japanese cultural forms, as from technological innovation and financial clout. It goes on to explore how Japanese managers and engineers cope when working with local non-Japanese staff, who hold their own very distinctive cultural and organizational inclinations, showing how Japanese organizational culture does and does not adapt in overseas settings. Globalising Japanese Organisational Culture concludes by arguing that the insights provided by the intimate study of persons interacting within and across organizations is crucial for understanding globalization fully, and that this poses important challenges for established organization theory as well as for analysis of globalization by anthropologists and other social scientists. Details ISBN0415446783 Short Title GLOBALISATION & JAPANESE ORGAN Language English ISBN-10 0415446783 ISBN-13 9780415446785 Media Book Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Subtitle An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780415446785 UK Release Date 2007-12-21 AU Release Date 2007-12-21 NZ Release Date 2007-12-21 Author Mitchell Sedgwick Pages 224 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-12-21 Alternative 9780415492164 DEWEY 306.340952 Illustrations 9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134420148;

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