Repository | Book | Chapter
(2015) Collective myopia in Japanese organizations, Dordrecht, Springer.
Many books and articles regarding Japanese management and companies were published in English, especially during the ascent of the Japanese economy from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. Those writers were not exclusively Japanese but were also Americans and British. They tended to report the best-practiced models only, especially in manufacturers. But I could not follow this general tendency of Japanese management studies when I discovered the truth in nonmanufacturing sectors around Tokyo. There, I conducted qualitative research, including interviews, participant observations, grounded theory, and phenomenological interviews, over years. I also commuted from Hiroshima to Tokyo to follow up. Therefore, readers should be reminded that I did not make up my reports in order to criticize Japanese management and companies after the explosion of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 14, 2014. The human tragedy coincidentally synchronized with my descriptions that may contain undesirable information about Japanese companies.
Publication details
Full citation:
Chikudate, N. (2015). Descriptions of japanese white-collar workplaces, in Collective myopia in Japanese organizations, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 81-116.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.