Corporate culture in multinational companies : a Japanese perspective /

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Author / Creator:	Miroshnik, Victoria, 1969- author.
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:	xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Corporate culture -- Japan. Corporate culture -- Cross-cultural studies. International business enterprises -- Japan. Corporate culture. International business enterprises. Japan. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10091197

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Other authors / contributors:	Basu, Dipak R., author.
ISBN:	9781137447647 1137447648
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The objective of corporate culture in a company is to align the organization's espoused values to the perceived (ideal) values of the corporation and its employees whether within the country or within the worldwide network of subsidiaries to create competitive success. We can call this value alignment among employees (irrespective of their nationality) the creation of company citizenship. We propose that company citizenship can be enhanced when the employees' personal values are in alignment with the values of the corporate culture in a multinational company. Corporate Culture in Multinational Companies examines this issue in the context of a number of Japanese multinational companies from various industrial sectors. This work explores the value component of corporate culture in these companies and their relationship with production efficiency and personal values of the employee, which create motivation. The authors combine both qualitative analysis of the experiences of leaders in these organizations and the most advanced quantitative analysis regarding corporate performance as reflected in the human resources in these organizations."--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
1. Introduction
2. Corporate Culture: Concepts and Issues
Role of corporate culture
Corporate culture and person-organization fit
Corporate culture and corporate performance
Corporate network in Japan
Asian management models and value creation
Guanxi in China
Conclusion
3. The Management System of Japanese Companies: Macro and Micro Perspectives
The Japanese management model
The Toyota production management system
Effects of Japanese corporate culture
Sources of Japanese corporate culture
A theory of Japanese corporate culture
4. The Role of Corporate Culture in Production Efficiency
Production function: concepts
Production function and corporate culture
Estimation of a managerial production function
The method of analysis
Measurement of the effects of corporate culture
Structural equation modeling of the production function
Production function model equation 1
Production function with customers satisfaction
Production function model 2
How corporate culture affects production efficiency
Conclusion
Appendix: measurement issues of corporate culture
5. Corporate Culture in the 40 Samurais
Characteristics of the sample
Statistical analysis of the corporate culture
Correlation analyses
Factor analysis: corporate culture
Person-organization fit in Japanese parent companies
Conclusion
6. Corporate Culture in Shogun One
Understanding the corporate culture
Quantitative analysis of the corporate culture
Corporate culture: definition of factors in (or value components of) corporate culture
Composition of corporate culture as unobserved variable
Factor analysis
Creation of motivation: personality of the employees and espoused values of corporate culture
Comparison between 'ideal' corporate culture and 'observed' corporate culture
Conclusion
7. Corporate Culture in Shogun Two
The nature of the corporate culture
Quantitative analysis of the corporate culture
Characteristics of the sample
Corporate culture
Correlation analysis
Factor analysis
Personality of the employees and espoused values of the culture in Shogun Two
Conclusion
8. International Transfer of Corporate Culture
Purpose of international comparison
Corporate culture of Shogun One in its Australian subsidiary: qualitative analysis
Person-organization fit in Shogun One in Thailand
Corporate culture of Shogun Two in its British subsidiary
Shogun Two: structural equation analysis of the relationship between corporate culture in the Japanese HQ and its subsidiary in the UK
The 40 Samurais: comparison between the HQ and international subsidiaries
Conclusion
Appendix
9. Corporate Culture at the Highest Level: Governance
Traditional practices of corporate governance in Japan
The role of employees
Recent changes: weakening of control by banks
Reform of the boards
Historical background
Types of corporate governance
Impacts of the corporate governance system in Japan
Corporate survival
Honda's corporate governance system: harmony of corporate governance and corporate culture
Accounting audits
Honda and its stakeholders
Corporate governance practices followed by Honda
Experience of Olympus: clash of corporate governance and corporate culture
Experience of Japanese insurance firms
Implications of deregulation and entry of foreign financial institutions
Corporate governance and corporate performance
Corporate governance and corporate performance of insurance companies
Horizontal keiretsu system and Japanese financial market
Keiretsu in the financial market
Comparative performance of Japanese and foreign insurance companies
Relationship between returns on bonds, stocks, foreign securities, and capital
Efficiency of financial institutions in modern Japan
Experience of US banks
Analysis
10. Corporate culture in the Japanese management model
Multinational companies and global culture
Global citizenship (global managerial culture) versus national managerial culture
Conclusion
11. Conclusion
References
Index

Corporate culture in multinational companies : a Japanese perspective /

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