Mari Sako
Biographic Data
| ID | 266647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mari Sako |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Sako |
| SIGNATURE | SAKO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3465-0047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI and actor-specific decisions
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly seen as potentially replacing humans in decision-making and problem-solving across many domains. AI is effective for many well-specified decisions. But we argue that AI cannot deal with what we call “actor-specificity.” Actor-specific decisions and problems are (a) forward-looking, (b) individual and idiosyncratic, (c) reasoning-intensive, and (d) experimental—requiring intervention in the world to fac…
How Technology Is (or Is Not) Transforming Law Firms
In this review, we explore the impact of technology on US and UK law firms, focusing in particular on the recent machine learning wave of artificial intelligence. Technology has not so far ushered the end of law firms as we know them. Adoption of artificial intelligence/machine learning is in its early stages in the sector, and its impact has been constrained by the scope of use cases for which it is so far well-suited. Technology is nevertheless…
Commentary on New Theories in Employment Relations
ILR Review invited leading scholars to present short comments on paired articles in the preceding Special Issue on New Theories in Employment Relations. They identify key contributions, suggest extensions, and offer broader thoughts on the direction of future theory in employment relations
Professional Skills
This chapter addresses the under-researched area of professional skills formation in a comparative perspective. The first part reviews the main disciplinary frameworks for analyzing the education and training of professionals. The second part develops a comparative political economy typology for categorizing varieties of professional skill formation systems. This section identifies national institutions of relevance for professional skills, which…
Continuity and Change in the Japanese Economy
The political economy of Japan has been characterized by tightly knit institutions of relational coordination, such as the main bank system, lifetime employment, long-term supplier relations in intermediate product markets, and neo-corporatist business–labour–government relations in policymaking. By the late 1990s, however, diverse patterns of organizing have become evident, with the growth of new stock exchanges and venture capital, the developm…
Strategy Meets Institutions
This comparison of labor-management relations at Deutsche Telekom (DT) and NTT Group (formerly Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) demonstrates the value of considering both institutions and strategic decision-making to understand the interaction between companies and unions. As corporations diversify, multi-divisional or holding company structures emerge, but the degree of diversity introduced in employment relations within the corporate group depen…
Administrando Parques Industriais De Autopeças No Brasil
O artigo compara três parques industriais de fornecedores de autopeças no Brasil - na Volkswagen de Resende (RJ), na General Motors de Gravataí (RS) e na Ford de Camaçari (BA). A partir de visitas e entrevistas realizadas nas três localidades, no final de 2004, o estudo revela a diversidade de arranjos locais no que diz respeito a três dimensões: o padrão de propriedade de ativos, o grau de terceirização de tarefas e a natureza da relação com os …
Are Skills the Answer?
This study of the problems confronting institutions for the creation of occupational skills in seven advanced industrialised countries contributes to two different areas of debate. The first is the study of the diversity of institutional forms taken by modern capitalism, and the difficulties currently surrounding the survival of that diversity. Most discussions of this theme analyse economic institutions and governance in general. This book is mo…
Enterprise Unionism in Japan
Prices, Quality and Trust
Prices, Quality and Trust
Prices, quality and trust
The management of buyer-supplier relations has come to be regarded as a key to achieving manufacturing competitiveness, particularly in sectors facing global competition based on both price and quality. This book is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the link between the type of buyer-supplier relations and corporate performance. Dr Sako examines how British and Japanese companies in the electronics industry manage their relationships wit…
How the Japanese Learn to Work
Teaching or Testing
Journal Article TEACHING OR TESTING: THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN JAPAN Get access MARI SAKO, MARI SAKO London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD DORE RONALD DORE Japan and Europe Industry Research Centre, Imperial College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 4, Issue 3, Autumn 1988, Pages 72–81, https://doi.or…
Japan und die Mittelmachte im Ersten Weltkrieg und in den zwanziger Jahren
Japan and World Depression
Price, Quality and Trust
Theory and Concepts: 1. A spectrum of transactional patterns: from ACR to OCR 2. Trust and organisational efficiency Part II. Case Studies and Survey: 3. Setting the scene 4. JJ Electric, GB Electronics and TCP (UK) 5. The analysis of supplier companies Part III. Explanations of Variations: 6. Economic and technological factors 7. The legal framework 8. Banks and financial links 9. Employment system links 10. Entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of…
Strategy Meets Institutions
This comparison of labor-management relations at Deutsche Telekom (DT) and NTT Group (formerly Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) demonstrates the value of considering both institutions and strategic decision-making to understand the interaction between companies and unions. As corporations diversify, multi-divisional or holding company structures emerge, but the degree of diversity introduced in employment relations within the corporate group depen…
How Technology Is (or Is Not) Transforming Law Firms
In this review, we explore the impact of technology on US and UK law firms, focusing in particular on the recent machine learning wave of artificial intelligence. Technology has not so far ushered the end of law firms as we know them. Adoption of artificial intelligence/machine learning is in its early stages in the sector, and its impact has been constrained by the scope of use cases for which it is so far well-suited. Technology is nevertheless…
Administrando Parques Industriais De Autopeças No Brasil
O artigo compara três parques industriais de fornecedores de autopeças no Brasil - na Volkswagen de Resende (RJ), na General Motors de Gravataí (RS) e na Ford de Camaçari (BA). A partir de visitas e entrevistas realizadas nas três localidades, no final de 2004, o estudo revela a diversidade de arranjos locais no que diz respeito a três dimensões: o padrão de propriedade de ativos, o grau de terceirização de tarefas e a natureza da relação com os …
Enterprise Unionism in Japan
Japan and World Depression
Teaching or Testing
Journal Article TEACHING OR TESTING: THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN JAPAN Get access MARI SAKO, MARI SAKO London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD DORE RONALD DORE Japan and Europe Industry Research Centre, Imperial College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 4, Issue 3, Autumn 1988, Pages 72–81, https://doi.or…
Japan und die Mittelmachte im Ersten Weltkrieg und in den zwanziger Jahren
Prices, quality and trust
The management of buyer-supplier relations has come to be regarded as a key to achieving manufacturing competitiveness, particularly in sectors facing global competition based on both price and quality. This book is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the link between the type of buyer-supplier relations and corporate performance. Dr Sako examines how British and Japanese companies in the electronics industry manage their relationships wit…
How the Japanese Learn to Work
Enterprise Unionism in Japan
Prices, Quality and Trust
Prices, Quality and Trust
Are Skills the Answer?
This study of the problems confronting institutions for the creation of occupational skills in seven advanced industrialised countries contributes to two different areas of debate. The first is the study of the diversity of institutional forms taken by modern capitalism, and the difficulties currently surrounding the survival of that diversity. Most discussions of this theme analyse economic institutions and governance in general. This book is mo…
Strategy Meets Institutions
This comparison of labor-management relations at Deutsche Telekom (DT) and NTT Group (formerly Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) demonstrates the value of considering both institutions and strategic decision-making to understand the interaction between companies and unions. As corporations diversify, multi-divisional or holding company structures emerge, but the degree of diversity introduced in employment relations within the corporate group depen…
Administrando Parques Industriais De Autopeças No Brasil
O artigo compara três parques industriais de fornecedores de autopeças no Brasil - na Volkswagen de Resende (RJ), na General Motors de Gravataí (RS) e na Ford de Camaçari (BA). A partir de visitas e entrevistas realizadas nas três localidades, no final de 2004, o estudo revela a diversidade de arranjos locais no que diz respeito a três dimensões: o padrão de propriedade de ativos, o grau de terceirização de tarefas e a natureza da relação com os …
Continuity and Change in the Japanese Economy
The political economy of Japan has been characterized by tightly knit institutions of relational coordination, such as the main bank system, lifetime employment, long-term supplier relations in intermediate product markets, and neo-corporatist business–labour–government relations in policymaking. By the late 1990s, however, diverse patterns of organizing have become evident, with the growth of new stock exchanges and venture capital, the developm…
Professional Skills
This chapter addresses the under-researched area of professional skills formation in a comparative perspective. The first part reviews the main disciplinary frameworks for analyzing the education and training of professionals. The second part develops a comparative political economy typology for categorizing varieties of professional skill formation systems. This section identifies national institutions of relevance for professional skills, which…
Commentary on New Theories in Employment Relations
ILR Review invited leading scholars to present short comments on paired articles in the preceding Special Issue on New Theories in Employment Relations. They identify key contributions, suggest extensions, and offer broader thoughts on the direction of future theory in employment relations
How Technology Is (or Is Not) Transforming Law Firms
In this review, we explore the impact of technology on US and UK law firms, focusing in particular on the recent machine learning wave of artificial intelligence. Technology has not so far ushered the end of law firms as we know them. Adoption of artificial intelligence/machine learning is in its early stages in the sector, and its impact has been constrained by the scope of use cases for which it is so far well-suited. Technology is nevertheless…
Price, Quality and Trust
Theory and Concepts: 1. A spectrum of transactional patterns: from ACR to OCR 2. Trust and organisational efficiency Part II. Case Studies and Survey: 3. Setting the scene 4. JJ Electric, GB Electronics and TCP (UK) 5. The analysis of supplier companies Part III. Explanations of Variations: 6. Economic and technological factors 7. The legal framework 8. Banks and financial links 9. Employment system links 10. Entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of…
AI and actor-specific decisions
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly seen as potentially replacing humans in decision-making and problem-solving across many domains. AI is effective for many well-specified decisions. But we argue that AI cannot deal with what we call “actor-specificity.” Actor-specific decisions and problems are (a) forward-looking, (b) individual and idiosyncratic, (c) reasoning-intensive, and (d) experimental—requiring intervention in the world to fac…
Political science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Marketing (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)