The new Japanese Firm as a Hybrid Organization

• Main Author: Miyamoto, Mitsuharu (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science, 16
• Subjects: Evolutionary economics.; Corporate governance.; Personnel management.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Corporate Governance.; Human Resource Management.

This book examines corporate reform in Japan by focusing on corporate governance and the employment system. Contrary to a prevailing assertion of radical change, it is revealed that actual change is gradual, and a new type of Japanese firm is generated by reform with gradual change. Throughout the b...

Table of Contents:

• Chaper 1. Change and continuity in Japanese corporate governance
• Change 2. Reform of the work organization: performance-related pay and employment system
• Chapter 3. Diversification of Japanese firms: how did a hybrid organization emerge from corporate governance reform?
• Chapter 4. How do Japanese employees react to performance-related pay: the working of hybrid organizations. - Chapter 5. How are Japanese employees reacting to changing corporate governance?
• Chapter 6. Conclusions. .