Mitchell Sedgwick

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture (eBook, ePUB)

An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization is increasingly taking place within the context of cross-cultural organizations. This book examines the nature of such global cross-cultural organizational interaction, providing a detailed study of everyday workplace practices, and change, in the subsidiary of a large Japanese consumer electronics company in France.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134064151
• Artikelnr.: 38258088

Autorenporträt

Mitchell W. Sedgwick is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, and Director of the Europe Japan Research Centre at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He was formerly Associate Director of the Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Yasuda Fellow at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and affiliated with King's College, University of Cambridge. During the 1980s Dr Sedgwick was a consulting organisational anthropologist in South East Asia and West Africa for the World Bank, and later worked in Cambodia on its first post war election for the United Nations.

Inhaltsangabe

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