The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States

Jacoby, Sanford M.; Sanford M. Jacoby (Author)

ISBN 10: 0691119996 / ISBN 13: 9780691119991

Edité par Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ and Oxford, England, UK, 2005

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216 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Pen markings throughout text. Stain on front of dj.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ and Oxford, England, UK
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691119996
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691119991
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Deborah Hodgdon (Jacket Design); Jason Reed, Ryan McVay/ Photodisc (Jacket Photo)
• Impression: 2nd Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Business, Finance, Economics
  • Asian & Far Eastern History, Culture & Studies
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

Is there one best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, executives, and employees? These questions are being vigorously debated as layoffs, scandals, and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In America, shareholders have emerged as dominant while employment is more transitory and market-oriented. In Japan, shareholders are gaining influence but employees still play a key role in corporate strategy and governance. In "The Embedded Corporation", Sanford Jacoby traces this enduring diversity to national differences in economic history and social norms, and, paradoxically, to global competition itself. The book's vantage point for exploring the varieties of capitalism is the headquarters of large corporations - in particular, their human resources departments, where changes in markets and technology turn into corporate labor policies affecting millions of workers. Jacoby reveals the inner workings of these departments. Despite some cross-fertilization, Japanese and American corporations maintain distinctive approaches to human resource management, with Japanese HR departments occupying a more central position within the corporation. As Jacoby shows, this has important consequences for how firms compete, for corporate governance, and even for the level of inequality in Japan and the United States. "The Embedded Corporation" is a major contribution to our understanding of comparative management and the relationship between business, society, and the global economy.

À propos de l?auteur

Sanford M. Jacoby is the Howard Noble Professor of Management, Policy Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal" (Princeton) and "Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of the Workplace in the 20th Century" (Erlbaum).