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Translational Systems Sciences 30 Izumi Mitsui Kazuhito Isomura Yoshiyuki Takeuchi Editors Translating and Incorporating American Management Thought into Japan Impacts on Academics and Practices of Business Administration Translational Systems Sciences Volume 30 Editors-in-Chief KyoichiKijima,SchoolofBusinessManagement,BandungInstituteofTechnology, Tokyo,Japan HiroshiDeguchi,FacultyofCommerceandEconomics,ChibaUniversityof Commerce,Tokyo,Japan (cid:129) (cid:129) Izumi Mitsui Kazuhito Isomura Yoshiyuki Takeuchi Editors Translating and Incorporating American Management Thought into Japan Impacts on Academics and Practices of Business Administration Editors IzumiMitsui KazuhitoIsomura FacultyofBusinessAdministration FacultyofScience&Engineering SonodaWomen’sUniversity ChuoUniversity Amagasaki,Hyogo,Japan Tokyo,Japan YoshiyukiTakeuchi GraduateSchoolofEconomics OsakaUniversity Toyonaka,Osaka,Japan ISSN2197-8832 ISSN2197-8840 (electronic) TranslationalSystemsSciences ISBN978-981-19-4541-0 ISBN978-981-19-4542-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4542-7 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSingapore PteLtd.2022 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseof illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore Contents 1 Introduction:HistoricalBackgroundandFocusofThisBook. . . . .. 1 IzumiMitsui 2 Introduction,Installation,andDisseminationofScientific ManagementinJapan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 KyoheiHiranoandYoshiyukiTakeuchi 3 TheAcceptanceofHumanRelationsTheoryinJapan. . . . . . . . . . . 53 TetsuyaTakahashi 4 ExaminingtheImpactofChesterBarnard’sOrganizationTheoryin Japan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 TakanoriSakuradaandKazuhitoIsomura 5 PeterF.DruckerandthePhilosophyof“Management”. . . . . . . . . . 89 YasushiIsakaandHisashiShimada 6 HowHasJapanAccepted,Developed,andTransformedStrategic ManagementTheory?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 KazuhitoIsomuraandToruYamaoka 7 TheDevelopmentofHumanResourceManagementTheory inJapan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 YoshikoNiwamotoandNorioKambayashi 8 TheDevelopmentofCorporateCultureStudiesinJapan:WhatDid theCorporateCultureBoomofthe1980sBringAbout?. . . . . . . . . . 155 YasuhiroWatanabe 9 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 IzumiMitsui,KazuhitoIsomura,andYoshiyukiTakeuchi Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 v Editors and Contributors About the Editors Kazuhito Isomura is Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Sci- ence and Engineering, Chuo University. Prior to joining Chuo University, he was withFukushimaUniversity,SchoolofEconomicsasanassociateprofessor.Hewas aprofessorintheMBAprogramatChuoGraduateSchoolofInternationalAccount- ingbeforetransferringtotheSchoolofScienceandEngineering.HeearnedaBA,an MA, and a PhD in economics at Kyoto University. He is a leading researcher on ChesterBarnard’smanagementthought.Hisareasofresearchareleadershipdevel- opment,corporatestrategy,knowledgemanagement,andmanagementhistory.Heis the author of Soshiki to Ken-i [Organization and Authority] (in Japanese) (2000), SenryakuModelwoDesignsuru[DesigningStrategicModels](inJapanese)(2018), Organization Theory by Chester Barnard: An Introduction (2020), and Manage- mentTheorybyChesterBarnard:AnIntroduction(2021). Izumi Mitsui is Professor of Business Administration in the Faculty of Business Administration, Sonoda Women’s University. Prior to joining SWU, she was in NihonUniversity,TezukayamaUniversity,andFukushimaUniversity.Herresearch interests include management philosophy, history of management thought, and anthropological approaches to business administration. She is author of Shakaiteki Networking-ronnoGenryū:MPFollettnoShisou[AnOriginofSocialNetworking Theory: The Thought of MP Follett] (in Japanese) (2009), editor of Asia-kigyō no Keieirinen:SeiseiDenpaKeishōnoDynamism[ManagementPhilosophyofAsian Companies:DynamismofCreation,DiffusionandSuccession](inJapanese)(2013), and coeditor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization: An Anthropological ApproachtoBusinessAdministration(2016),EnterpriseasaCarrierofCulture:An AnthropologicalApproachtoBusinessAdministration(2019),andCulturalTrans- lation of Management Philosophy in Asian Companies: Its Emergence, Transmis- sion,andDiffusionintheGlobalEra(2020). vii viii EditorsandContributors YoshiyukiTakeuchi isAssociateProfessorofAppliedStatisticsandEconometrics intheGraduateSchoolofEconomics,OsakaUniversity.Hisresearchinterestsfocus ondatascienceincludingstatistics.Inaddition,hehasbeenworkingonthehistory of statistical thought, in particular the migration of the mathematical statistics into Japan, and the anthropology of business administration. He is author of “On a StatisticalMethodtoDetectdiscontinuity inthe DistributionFunctionof Reported Earnings”(MathematicsandComputersinSimulation64(1),2004)andiscoeditor of Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization (2016) and of Tekisuto Keiei Jinruigaku [Textbook: Anthropology of Business Administration] (in Japanese) (2019). Contributors KyoheiHirano isAssociateProfessorofBusinessHistoryintheGraduateSchool of Business Administration, Kobe University. His research focuses mainly on the modern and contemporary history of Japanese textile industry. He is coauthor of Sangyo Keiei-shi Series 3 Sen-i Sangyo [Industrial Management History Series 3 TextileIndustry](inJapanese)(2013)andcoeditorof1karanoKeiei-shi[1stStep ofBusinessHistory](inJapanese)(2014). YasushiIsaka isProfessorintheCenterforLiberalArts,InstituteofTechnologists. HeearnedanMAattheUniversityofTokyoandaPhDatSenshuUniversity. His research interests include history of Japanese management and Peter Drucker’s management disciplines. He is the author of P. F. Drucker: Inception and Beyond (in Japanese) (2018) and received the Society for the History of Management Theories’EncouragementAwardforthiswork. NorioKambayashi isProfessorofHumanResourceManagementintheGraduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University. He gained his PhD both in industrialandbusinessstudiesfromtheUniversityofWarwickandinbusinessand management studies from Kobe University. He has published several books and research articles on the impact of ICT on organizations and human resources particularly from a cross-cultural perspective, such as Cultural Influences on IT Use: A UK-Japanese Comparison (2002) and Japanese Management in Change: TheImpactofGlobalizationandMarketPrinciples(2015)(editor). YoshikoNiwamoto isAssociateProfessorofHumanResourceManagementinthe GraduateSchoolofBusinessAdministration,KobeUniversity.ShegainedherPhD atKobeUniversity.Herareasofresearchareorganizationalcapabilities,employee development, and career adaptability. She is author of “The interface between organizational capabilities and leadership: how leadership relates to the process of responding to a changing environment through dynamic capabilities,” Eurasian EditorsandContributors ix JournalofBusinessandManagement,6(3),2018,and“Keieisenryakuronkaramita chiteki jukuren no igi” [The Significance of intellectual skills in Management Strategy] (in Japanese) (Japan Journal of Human Resource Management 23(1), 2022). Takanori Sakurada is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Toyama. He earned a BA in economics at Fukushima University, andanMAandaPhDineconomicsatKyotoUniversity.Hisresearchinterestsfocus oninstitutionalization,organizationalculture,andmanagementhistory.Heisauthor of“Sekinin-yūsen-setsu noIgi”[SignificanceofPriority TheoryofResponsibility] (in Japanese) (The Fudai Keizai Ronshū 67(2), 2021) and coauthor of “Nihon ni okeruBarnardRironnoJuyōtoTenkai”[AcceptanceandDevelopmentofBarnard’s TheoryinJapan](inJapanese)(TheAnnualBulletinofTheSocietyforTheHistory ofManagementTheories28,2021). HisashiShimada isVisitingLecturerintheSchoolofTheology,KwanseiGakuin UniversityandisinchargeofManagementofNonprofitOrganizationsandSeminar in Church Management. He earned a BA at Kobe University and a PhD at MomoyamaGakuinUniversity.Afterworkingasabusinesspersonforaquarterof a century, he entered the research field, specializing in Business Ethics and Man- agement of Nonprofit Organizations. He is author of Management of Nonprofit Organizations,NPOasaWayofLife(inJapanese)andothermanybooks. TetsuyaTakahashi isAssociateProfessorofHumanResourceManagementinthe CollegeofEconomics,NihonUniversity.PriortojoiningNihonUniversity,hewas withTokyoFujiUniversity,whereheengagedinhumanresourcemanagementand management history. His research interests include Japanese management systems and regulation by architecture. He is coauthor of Tekisuto Keiei Jinruigaku [Text- book: Anthropology of Business Administration] (in Japanese) (2019), Cultural TranslationofManagementPhilosophyinAsianCompanies:ItsEmergence,Trans- mission, and Diffusion in the Global Era (2020), and Ningen to keiei [Human and Management](inJapanese)(2021). Yasuhiro Watanabe is Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Economics, Hokkaido Musashi Women's Junior College. His research interests focus on management philosophy, organizational culture, and theory of institutionalization. He is coauthor of Tekisuto Keiei Jinruigaku [Text- book:AnthropologyofBusinessAdministration](inJapanese)(2019),andCultural TranslationofManagementPhilosophyinAsianCompanies:ItsEmergence,Trans- mission,andDiffusionintheGlobalEra(2020). ToruYamaoka isProfessorofOrganizationTheoryandBusinessAdministration at Yokohama National University. He earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD at Kyoto University.Hisresearchinterestsincludestrategicchangemanagementandparadox x EditorsandContributors inorganizations,andrecentresearchfocusesonorganizationalambidexteritywhich requirestheorganizationstomanageexplorationandexploitationatthesametime. He is author of Henkaku to Paradox no Soshikiron [Change and Paradox in Organizations](inJapanese)(2015). Chapter 1 Introduction: Historical Background and Focus of This Book IzumiMitsui Abstract This book focuses on the establishment process of Japanese-style man- agement (JSM). Traditionally, it was widely believed that JSM consists of “three sacredtreasures”—lifetimeemployment,aseniority-basedwagesystem,andenter- priseunions—andisnativetoJapan.Thisbookopposesthesetraditionalviewsand arguesthatithasbeenshapedbytheinfluenceofthemanagementtheoriesandideas of other countries. The JSM has not only adopted the ideas and concepts of other countries,butalsohasrefined,translated,andcustomizedthemtomakesuchideas and concepts acceptable in Japan. The hypothesis presented here is that in the postwar rapid growth period, JSM was a hybrid set of management theories and techniquesgreatlyinfluencedbyAmericanideasaboutmanagement. Keywords Japanese-stylemanagement·Culturaltranslation·Industrialization· Standardization·Industrialdemocratization·Threesacredtreasures 1.1 Purpose and Framework The concept of “Japanese-style management (or Japanese style of management)” was“discovered”byculturalanthropologistJ.Abeggleninthe1950s,whenreport- edly the Japanesebecame aware ofit for thefirst time. This created the“heteroge- neity theory” of Japanese-style management (hereafter JSM) in later studies, and many subsequently emphasized the uniqueness of JSM. However, we do not take thatpositionhere. ThisbookfocusesonhowJSMwasestablished.Traditionally,ithasbeenwidely believed that JSM consists of “three sacred treasures”: lifetime employment, a seniority-based wage system, and enterprise unions. In addition, it has also been believedthatJSMisoriginatedinJapan.Thisbookopposesthesetraditionalviews on JSM and argues that it has been shaped by the influence of the management I.Mitsui(*) FacultyofBusinessAdministration,SonodaWomen’sUniversity,Amagasaki,Hyogo,Japan e-mail:[email protected] ©TheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSingaporePteLtd.2022 1 I.Mitsuietal.(eds.),TranslatingandIncorporatingAmericanManagementThought intoJapan,TranslationalSystemsSciences30, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4542-7_1
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