A Japanese company in crisis : ideology, strategy, and narrative / Fiona Graham
- Bib ID:
- 3415376
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Graham, Fiona
- Description:
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- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
- 263 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0415346851
- Series:
- RoutledgeCurzon Contemporary Japan series ; 1.
- Summary:
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"Japanese white-collar workers have been characterised by their intense loyalty and life-long commitment to their companies. This book is based on very extensive ethnographic research inside a Japanese insurance company during the period when it was going through a major crisis which ended in the company's bankruptcy and collapse. It examines the attitudes of Japanese employees towards their work, their company and related issues at a time when the established order and established attitudes were under threat. The wide range and detail of the reporting of workers' attitudes, often in their own words, sustained over a considerable time-scale, makes this study a particularly valuable resource."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Economic background
- 3. The current situation
- 4. Restructuring
- 5. The company and change
- 6. The flowers of 1985
- 7. Ideology and economic strategising
- 8. Strategising during the filming of C-life
- 9. Narrative and myth
- 10. C-life goes under
- 11. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2004
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