Following the burst of the economic bubble in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. Changes in corporate governance were widely discussed during that decade in studies on Japanese management. These discussions have resulted in little progress, however, since Americanization became the dominant discourse concerning governance and the management system. There have been few studies conducted from an academic point of view on the internal aspects of organizations that practice traditional Japanese management theory.

This book examines how, and the degree to which, the development of market principles accompanying the advances of globalization has affected the traditional Japanese system. It focuses on four aspects of corporate management: management institutions, strategy, organization, and human resource management. The aggregation of the new management system in Japanese companies is regarded as a distinctive Japanese-style system of management. With emphasis on these four aspects, research was conducted on the basic structure of that system, following changes in the market,technology, and society. Further, specific functions of the basic structure of the Japanese-style management system were studied. Those findings are included here, along with a discussion and analysis of the direction of future changes.

Clarifies the ways in which today's Japanese companies have changed from the 1980s, when Japanese management was a focus of attention Explains how those changes can be attributed to the progress of globalization in management activities, in particular, to the influence of the American style of business management Describes how the degree of change in management of Japanese companies varies with institutions, business strategies, organizations, and human resources

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Japanese Management in Change.- The Perceived Development and Unperceived Decline of Corporate Governance in Japan.- Empirical analysis of the influence of outside directors on Japanese firm performance.- The Social Roles of Japanese Companies under the "New Public" Policy.- Formation of the New Japanese Style Management Strategy.- Strategy and interorganizational relations of Japanese companies.- Financial Market Globalization and Its Influence on Japanese Firms.- Electronic Book Publishing Formats and the Response of Japanese Publishers.- Limited Regular Employees and Boundary of Employment.- Changes in performance appraisal in Japanese companies.- Leadership skills for enhancing subordinates' ability to learn from experience.- The Study of Career and Promotion Systems in Japan.- A Discussion of the Development of Work-Life Balance in Japan.