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ARM's Pick of the Week for 5/18/97
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Inside the
Kaisha : Demystifying Japanese Business Behavior
by Noboru Yoshimura, Philip Anderson, Naboru Yoshimura |
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Hardcover, 272 pages
Published by Harvard Business School Pr
Publication date: February 1997
Dimensions (in inches): 1.21 x 9.79 x 6.41
ISBN: 0875844154
The New York Times Book
Review, March 16, 1997 :
Yoshimura and Anderson provide a healthy antidote to much of the mumbo jumbo about
Japanese business practices perpetrated by journalists, businesspeople, and management
consultants.
William J. Lambert, Executive Vice
President & Director, Horizon Systems Lab, Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology
CenterAmerica :
Five or six years ago, I stopped reading explanations about how Japanese companies
operate. My own experience had outstripped the content of most books, the details of which
were often inconsistent with my observation and therefore suspect. But Inside the Kaisha
meets my tough standards. It introduces a new perspective within a real-world context. I
intend to recommend it to members of our organizations and even to hand it to new
employees as they come through the door.
Dr. Eugene R. Swanger, Professor
and Director, East Asian Studies, Wittenberg University, and Visiting Lecturer, Foreign
Service Institute, U.S. Department of State :
Inside the Kaisha by Yoshimura and Anderson is a leap ahead of all the writing on
Japanese business. In an engaging style, free of the jargon and theoretical principles so
commonly found in the literature, Yoshimura and Anderson enable readers to see the issues
in a situational-contextual manner, the way in which the Japanese themselves approach
problems in commercial enterprises. In addition to Americans doing business with the
Japanese, students of Japanese politics, economics, and ethics will also find this book
helpful, as will American government leaders.
Amazon Customer Comments
eric@sanwafp.com , 04/06/97, rating=9:
a must-read for everyone who's interested in Japan
For a long time Japan business and society have puzzled even its own insiders, it is no
longer so after this book. “Inside the Kaisha” describes a society where its
people make their date-to-date decisions not based on a set of core values, but on model
behavior which varies upon different context. Highly egalitarian from the outset, yet its
language effectively enforce a caste system based on seniority and acquired social status.
Japan’s splendid economic success has spurred global imitations of its business
behavior, yet outsiders often failed to understand its culture which is the primal driving
force. This book successfully establish such link and I think its essential for everyone
who's interested in Japan.
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