Study Of Japanese Companies

JaPanese economy has falling into the persistent recession after the wap and its developmenthas also been frustheted tedly since l990's.The postWar "Japanese Mode" fOrmed in severaldecades came into the object of modifying, denying, and irmovating. JaPan is entering into a newhistorical period of transition.The JaPanese calls this recession as "economy defeat", paralleling "military affairs defeat" ofthe Second World War Howevef, for any country economic development is not just a pureeconomic problem, but also a systematic PrOgram with the Whole society modernization. A1laspects such as economy, politics, diPlomacy, social cultufe, etc., interact and relate closely toeach other with the course of modernization.In some sense, JaPanese enterprise-man (EM) is the main pillar of the Japanese economy andsociety and the JaPanese economy wil1 not have succeeded without the JaPanese EM. But it is themain pillar that faced up difficult hansition in l990's.The author chose EM from JaPanesecomplex society and economic system to stUdy, with Which we can master the mystery of JaPaneseeconomy from prosperity to decline and make Japan itself understood again.This article st'Udying on JaPanese EM in a view of cross-subects and comprehension, makesup of the method of history culture, economic management theory etc. systematize on process ofits formation and development, profoundly discover the special pattem of its behavior and thestrUctUre of its spirits, roundly expounds the mechanism of its production and reproduction, andmakes rather-feasible outlook for its direction of refOrm in the futUre. StUdying on this topic, notonly is its meaningful to understand and master the transition of JaPanese enterprise pattern, butalso is its useful for Chinese enierprise management in human resource now.This article consists of three parts; preface, text and conclusion.PrefaceThe author describes the difficulties in current Japanese economy so to draws out thenecessity of researching Japanese EM. On the base of discussion all kinds of theory of humanityhyPothesis, the author defines the concept of Japanese EM. Finally the author expounds thetheoretical and realistic meaning of this researcIl.Chapter lThe author mainly discusses the historical formation and the characteristics of Japanese EM.The author points out that this phenomenon was formed in l930's and was established betWeenl950's and l960's, and stemmed from the rapidly developed Japanese economy and inheritedJapanese traditional cultUre. After researching it in the view of social cult-Ure, the authorgenera1izes Japanese EM's behavior pattern and spirit stTUct-Ure.Chapter 2The author researches JaPanese EM's process of reproAnction in the view of the personnelsystem. Japanese EM's reproduchon is deeply influenced by the countries traditiona1 cultUre.Lifetdrie employInent, seniority graded wage system, the labor-capital relations, and intemalcultivation, welfare, comPehtion system, all these demonsthete the characteristics that JaPaneseEM looks enterprise as his home. There are statUte institUtion and intangible institution at the"home". It is in such a special culture background that the EM is consbotly produced.ChaPter 3The author mainly researches the path of regeneration of JaPanese EM Who is facing updifficulties and its possibility of fotUre success. Wth the development of economic globalizationand infOrmation technology (IT) in l990's, the old pattem of JaPanese EM has faced many kindsof challenges and finally can't exist. So it is forced to begin to explore a new boe of EM. Theauthor points out that the only is refOrm the path to reconstrUction depend on both the intemalinnovation strength and outWard condition.ConclusionThe author generalizes the contents of above several chaPters and pointS out that JaPaneseEM is the historical outcome. Wth time developing, itS shortage is more and more obvious. So itneeds to make some reform.