Table of Contents
Foreword by Michael A. Cusumano
Acknowledgments
Introduction
SECTION I: THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF JAPANESE BUSINESS
1. The Source of Japanese Management Kunio Odaka
2. Japan's Matrix of Nature, Culture, and Technology Tobioka Ken
3. Confucianism and Japanese Modernization: A Study of Shibusawa Eiichi Kuo-hui Tai
4. The Influence of Confucianism and Zen on the Japanese Organization Subhash Durlabhji
SECTION II: COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN JAPAN
5. Public and Private Self in Communicating with Japan Dean C. Barnlund
6. The Vocabulary of Human Relationaships in Japan Edward T. Hall and Mildred R. Hall
7. Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan Harumi Befu
8. An Ethnography of Dinner Entertainment in Japan Harumi Befu
SECTION III: THE INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF JAPANESE BUSINESS
9. The Institutional Foundations of Japanese Industrial Policy Chalmers Johnson
10. Work Rules in Japan Toshiaki Ohta
11. Learning and Working in Japan Merry I. White
12. "Spiritual Education" in a Japanese Bank Thomas P. Rohlen
SECTION IV: MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING IN JAPAN
13. A Guide to Japanese Business Practices Mayumi Otsubo
14. Strategic Planning in Japan Milton C. Lauenstein
15. Hiring Women Managers in Japan: An Alternative for Foreign Employers Paul Lansing and Kathryn Ready
16. Continuity and Change in Japanese Management Tomasz Mroczkowski and Masao Hanaoka
17. Market Research the Japanese Way Johny K. Johansson and Ikujiro Nonaka
18. Distribution in Japan: Problems and Changes Michael R. Czinkota
SECTION V: MANUFACTURING: THE JAPANESE APPROACH
19. Manufacturing Innovation: Lessons from the Japanese Auto Industry Michael A. Cusumano
20. The Myth of the Cooperative Single Source John Ramsay
21. Another Hidden Edge—Japanese Management Accounting Toshiro Hiromoto
Notes
Glossary and Index of Japanese Words and Phrases
Contributors
Index
