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Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration /

In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei Jinruigaku, of the National Museum of Ethnology (J...

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Other Authors: Nakamaki, Hirochika. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hioki, Koichiro. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mitsui, Izumi. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Takeuchi, Yoshiyuki. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Translational Systems Sciences, 4
Subjects:
Knowledge management.
Leadership.
Anthropology.
Economic sociology.
Knowledge Management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54916-1
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Invitation to Keiei Jinruigaku; Anthropology of Business Administration (1 Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization (K. Hioki)
  • 2 Enterprise as Cultural Community (H. Nakamaki)
  • 3 Company Mythology (K. Hioki & H. Nakamaki)
  • Part II: Theoretical Characteristics of Keiei Jinruigaku (4 An Anthropological Approach for Management Theory: Beyond ‘Clinical’ and ‘Scientific’ Knowledge (I. Mitsui)
  • 5 ‘Ethnography’ in Japanese Corporate Activities: A Meta-anthropological Observation on the Relationship between Anthropology and the Outside (Y. Ito)
  • 6 Management in Interface: Glocal Displacement (K. Maegawa)
  • 7 Anthropology of Administration’s Approach to the Study of Management Philosophy as “Spiritual Capital” (N. Sumihara)
  • 8 Anthropological Research Methods in Business Administration: Migration and Translation within the Social Sciences (Y. Takeuchi)
  • Part III: Frontiers of the Research in Keiei Jinruigaku (9 Management of Secret in Religion and Company (H. Iwai)
  • 10 Company Funeral Culture and Funeral Companies: a Case Study of Taisei Saiten (S. Yamada)
  • 11 Anthropology of Distrust and Suspicion in Credit Transactions in Japan (M. Nakahata)
  • 12 Airline Culture: International Flight Attendant Service Design (K. Yamaki)
  • 13 Globalization and the Establishment of Manufacturing Bases Overseas: a Case Study of the ‘J Automobile Company’ (A. Sumi)
  • 14 From Politics of Ethnicity to Politics of Cultures: When Core-Pacific Group Too k Over Yamaichi International in Hong Kong (Heung Wah Wong)
  • 15 The Corporate Brand: towards an Anthropology of Branding (L. Matsunaga)
  • Grossary.

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