Understanding Japanese Management - Publications in English

 

First-generation writings on Japanese management:  various published articles, then books, notably Ezra Vogel’s Japan as Number One (1979), William Ouchi’s Theory Z (1981), and Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos’s The Art of Japanese Management (1981). 

1979

Book: Japan As Number 1: Lessons for America

Ezra Vogel

My first inclination was to examine how such Japanese virtues as hard work, patience, self-discipline, and sensitivity to others. contributed to their success. But the more I examined the Japanese approach to modern organization, the business community, and the bureaucracy; the more I became convinced that Japanese success had less to do with traditional character traits than with specific organizational structures, policy programs, and conscious planning. For several years I have been. wrestling with the problem of understanding Japan’s successes, and this book is the result of my intellectual labors.

William Ouchi’s Theory Z (1981)

Theory Z - Type Z Organizations

https://nraombakc.blogspot.com/2012/02/theory-z-type-z-organizations.html

Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos’s The Art of Japanese Management (1981)

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=fEFhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT133#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=7A3SBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA385#v=onepage&q&f=false

B. Keys, T. Miller, ‘The Japanese Management Theory Jungle’, 

Academy of Management Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1984, p. 342.

THE ART OF JAPANESE MANAGEMENT REVISITED,

DES DEARLOVE,

BUSINESS STRATEGY REVIEW ISSUE 3 – 2011

TOMASZ OLEJNICZAK

Japanese Management: 50 Years of Evolution of the Concept

ACTA ASIATICA, VARSOVIENSIA

No. 26, 2013

REFLECTING ON JAPAN’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MANAGEMENT THEORY

D. Eleanor Westney

Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emerita, MIT Sloan School of Management

Westney, Eleanor. "Reflecting on Japan’s contributions to management theory." Asian Business & Management 19, 1 (July 2019): 8–24 © 2019 Springer Nature Limited