(Ebook) Globalising Japanese Organisational Culture Japan Anthropology Workshop Series 1st Edition by Mitchell Sedgwick ISBN 978-0415492164 0415492165

(Ebook) Globalising Japanese Organisational Culture Japan Anthropology Workshop Series 1st Edition by Mitchell Sedgwick ISBN 978-0415492164 0415492165

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ISBN 10:  0415492165

ISBN 13: 978-0415492164

Author: Mitchell Sedgwick

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.

Table of contents: 

Part 1: Siting an Organisation

1. Introduction

2. Japan’s 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

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