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Based on interviews with 100 top managers of Japanese firms, this book studies the organization and decision making of Japanese corporations, as well as their long term planning for the future. The author examines aspects of corporations which include the nature of board of director systems, the system of life-long employment instituted in the 1950s, the origins of the bubble economy, the evolution of cartelism, and the globalization of the economy. She argues that in order to stay competitive Japanese corporations will need to shed surplus labor, redefine the role of older workers, reduce their volume of exports, and finally, completely overhaul the education system to allow for greater creativity in the generations to come. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables = ⅸ
Acknowledgements = xii
1 Introduction = 1
2 The Structure of Management = 17
 2.1 Japan's top management = 17
 2.2 The myth of bottom-up decision-making = 42
3 Human Resources = 69
 3.1 A brief history of postwar industrial relations = 69
 3.2 How lifetime employment works = 78
 3.3 The dynamics of Japanese organisations = 97
 3.4 Why Japanese managements fail to invest in female human capital = 109
4 Japan's Capital Market : Carte Blanche from the Shareholders = 127
 4.1 The lack of industrial finance after 1945 = 127
 4.2 The immature securities market = 143
 4.3 The climate for financial scandals = 159
5 Management Benchmarks = 189
 5.1 Cartelism and market leadership = 189
 5.2 The advance of new applied technologies = 207
 5.3 Globalisation and the world market = 229
6 Scenarios = 249
 6.1 High unemployment versus low unemployment = 249
 6.2 Reorganisation of Japanese industry = 262
 6.3 Back to the future = 284
Appendix : Interviewees, by Industry = 291
Notes and References = 299
Bibliography = 305
Index = 311