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Опубликовано на портале: 22-12-2006
Mari Sako
Oxford: Open University Press, 2006, 320 с.
All firms wrestle with restructuring, involving consolidation of mergers and acquisitions
on the one hand, and fragmentation through outsourcing and spin-offs on the other.
Through an in-depth investigation into the organizational strategies of Japanese
corporate management and union leaders in Japan, Mari Sako explores the issue of
'organizational boundaries' that arises from such restructuring.
Examining the strategy and structure of both businesses and trade unions, the book
draws upon empirical evidence drawn from interviews conducted at Toyota and Matsushita
and their respective unions. It examines their respective strategies in coping with
organizational boundaries against the backdrop of changing labour markets, and, in
the process, challenges widely held notions about Japanese corporate and union structures.
Mari Sako goes on to explore the implications of these relationships in other advanced
industrial countries for corporate restructuring, jobs, and labour market flexibility.


Опубликовано на портале: 26-11-2007
Ronald Philip Dore
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001, 328 с.
Ronald
Dore’s enquiring mind, rigorous reasoning and comparative methodology have
greatly enhanced our understanding of Japan. His insights from Japan have been deployed
to generate fresh perspectives on Britain and other industrialized and developing
countries. This careful selection of writings reflects his underlying concern with
what light the study of Japan sheds on theoretical generalizations about how societies
evolve and how economies work.
Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture brings together Ronald Dore’s
key writings for the first time, making his work accessible across a wide range of
social science disciplines. It produces a distinctive perspective with four interlinking
themes – technology-driven social evolution, late development, culture and
polemics. These are highly topical in the current context of rapid technological
innovation and socio-economic change, globalization and accompanying policy choices.
The book provides a rich empirical and conceptual source for those interested in
technology, socio-economic evolution and culture, and the ways in which they interact.
Researchers, teachers and students in the fields of evolutionary economics, economic
development, comparative education, institutional economics, political economy and
economic and classical sociology (as well as Japanese studies) will find this volume
invaluable reading.


Опубликовано на портале: 13-02-2007
Gosta Esping-Andersen
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 218 с.
The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also
the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. Most
analyses believe that the emerging postindustrial society is overdetermined by massive,
convergent forces, such as tertiarization, new technologies, or globalization, all
conspiring to make welfare states unsustainable in the future.
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies takes a second, more sociological
and more institutional, look at the driving forces of economic transformation. What,
as a result, stands out is postindustrial diversity, not convergence. Macroscopic,
global trends are undoubtedly powerful, yet their influence is easily rivalled by
domestic institutional traditions, by the kind of welfare regime that, some generations
ago, was put in place. It is, however, especially the family economy that hold the
key as to what kind of postindustrial model will emerge, and to how evolving tradeoffs
will be managed.
Twentieth-century economic analysis depended on a set of sociological assumptions
that, now, are invalid. Hence, to better grasp what drives today's economy, we must
begin with its social foundations.



Опубликовано на портале: 07-03-2008
Ред.: Robert Boyer, Daniel Drache
London: Routledge, 2006, 448 с.
Countries are looking for ways to compete and increase their share of exports; this
has led to the lowering of national borders and greater co-dependence. To many, this
climate of globalization signals the end of the nation-state as an effective manager
of national economic policy. In "States Against Markets" the contributors challenge
this perceived threat to the nation-state. They examine the fundamental issues of
competitiveness and market power. Some topics covered include a discussion of whether
or not globalization is really a novel development, an assessment of the success
of globalization as a means of convergence and uniformity across nations, an update
on the Hayek vs. Keynes debate, an analysis of how all parties involved can maximize
the benefits of globalization and an appraisal of the nation-state.



Опубликовано на портале: 26-11-2007
Ronald Philip Dore
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, 240 с.
This is a book about Washington Consensus capitalism and the controversies its encroachment
causes in Japan and Germany. Many people in both those countries share the assumptions
dominant today in Britain and America-that managers should be intent solely on creating
shareholder value and that shareholders' financial logic alone should determine who
buys what company on the stock exchange. That way efficiency (and hence global welfare)
will be maximized.
The Japanese and German advocates of full-bloodied market capitalism are not having
it all their own way, however. In both countries there are articulate defenders of
what they consider to be a better way of life, informed by a more human, more social-solidary,
set of values.
Dore traces the fascinating debates which ensue on corporate governance, on worker
rights, on supplier relations, on cartels and anti-trust, on pensions and welfare.
He also analyses actual changes in economic behaviour-an essential means of sorting
out a lot of the muddle and double-talk not just in the internal debates themselves,
but even more in the foreign reporting of them.
These accounts of the battle for the national soul in Japan and Germany constitute
one of the finest contributions to the 'diversity of capitalism' debate. Dore's account
should be read by anyone who is interested to know whether, for all the talk of globalization,
that diversity is going to survive.


