ISBN:
9781137450845
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (237 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Collective Myopia in Japanese Organizations : A Transcultural Approach for Identifying Corporate Meltdowns
DDC:
302.3/50952
Keywords:
Behavioral economics
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Drawing on European philosophies, this book examines collective myopia and its role in global business through various case studies of Japanese organizations, including the Tokyo Electric Power Company
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Frequently Used Abbreviations; Kanji Expressions in the Text; List of Frequently Used Japanese Words and Expressions; 1. Introduction; 2. Definition and Intellectual Roots of Collective Myopia; 2.1. Definition; 2.2. Intellectual Heritages and Positioning in Philology; General Overviews of Influences; Backward Readings; Derrida's Research Questions in Japanese Contexts; Phenomenology: Alternative to Received Views; Critical Theory of Frankfurt School and Habermas; French Post-Structuralism
Description / Table of Contents:
Ordinary Language Schools and EthnomethodologyThe Transfer of Academic Knowledge; 3. Normcracy; 3.1. Controversies in Bureaucracy; 3.2. Features in Normcracy; 3.3. Theories of Normcracy; Common Sense; Socialization; Norm: Linking Perceptions to Behaviors in Collectivity; Procedural Infrastructure of Producing Smooth Flows; Normalized Members; Protective Behaviors; 3.4. On White-Collar Crimes; 4. Socio-Cultural and Institutional Influences; 4.1. Homogenization of Japanese Businesses; By Human Resource Management; By Collapsing Higher Education; 4.2. Socio-cultural and Institutional Influences
Description / Table of Contents:
Economic Nationalism4.3. Japanese and Far-East Asian Intellectuality; Testing; The Birth of Absurdity in Japanese Language; Being Erudite Rather Than Creative; 4.4. Confucianism; 4.5. Economic Stability; 5. Descriptions of Japanese White-Collar Workplaces; 5.1. Elites without Expertise in an Information Technology Giant; "Galapagos Syndrome" of Information Technology Businesses in Japan; Death March; 5.2. Corporate Soldierism in an Advertising and Consulting Firm; Background Information; Direct and Oppressive Forces in Normcracy; Having Fun in Mutual Attacking
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3. Misery of Acquisition by a Cult-Like Mega-Supermarket ChainBroiler Offices; Charisma or Cult; Cultural Conflicts; Invaders into Communities; Whack-a-Mole; Revenge against Systems; Alcoholism and Desolation in the Colonization of Lifeworld; 6. Revisioning Japanese Management; 6.1. Conventional Views of Japanese Management; 6.2. Dark Histories of Blue-Chip Companies in the Financial Sector; New-Institutionalism; Justifying White-Collar Crimes; Generic Natures of Collective Myopia; A Case of the Former Dai-ichi-Kangyo Bank (Current Mizuho Bank); 6.3. Train Crash Tragedy of JR West
Description / Table of Contents:
Human Errors and Latent ConditionsCultures and Learning in Safety Studies; Chronological Events; Forensic Analysis; Foucault's Power Analysis; Learning, Correction, or Something Else?; Convention Rather Than Standardized Rule; Underlying Assumptions of Disciplinary Punishment; Final Notes; 6.4. Some Truths of "Excellent" Manufacturers; The Colonization of Lifeworld in Toyota; Window Dressings versus British CEO in Olympus; 7. Questioning Organizational Change; 7.1. Catastrophe by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO); 7.2. Linguistic Turns to Stabilize TEPCO's Collective Myopia
Description / Table of Contents:
7.3. Mitsubishi Motors' Autoethnography
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Permalink
