Translating and Incorporating American Management Thought into Japan: Impacts on Academics and Practices of Business Administration

189 Pages·2022·5.681 MB·English

by  Izumi Mitsui, Kazuhito Isomura, Yoshiyuki Takeuchi

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)
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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
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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).
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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
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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
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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
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FacultyofBusinessAdministration,SonodaWomen’sUniversity,Amagasaki,Hyogo,Japan
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