The new community firm : employment, governance and management reform in Japan / T. Inagami and D. Hugh Whittaker.

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.

After sweeping all before it in the 1980s, 'Japanese management' ran into trouble in the 1990s, especially in the high tech industries, prompting many to declare it had outlived its usefulness. From the late 1990s leading companies embarked on wide-ranging reforms designed to restore their entrepreneurial vigour.

Company as community -- The classic model : benchmark for change -- Change and continuity -- Company professionals and creative work -- Corporate governance and managers' ideologies -- Consolidated management and quasi internal labour markets -- Summing up -- Hitachi : a dancing giant -- A victim of its own success? -- Organization reform -- Recasting the employment relationship -- The impact on industrial relations -- Evaluation -- New model in the making? -- Changes in job tenure.