D Hugh Whittaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Hugh Whittaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTAKER D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nissan (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction: Secular stagnation in East Asia
The countries of East Asia face headwinds that inhibit economic growth, making economic stagnation a conceivable, if not inevitable, outcome. These headwinds include a declining and ageing population, inadequate domestic demand, competition from a new generation of emerging economies, and geopolitical uncertainty in the region. Japan is so far the only East Asian country to have experienced prolonged economic stagnation. There are fears that Japa…
Premature deindustrialization, inter-sectoral employment shifts, and accelerated servicization
Concern about the implications of ‘premature deindustrialization’ for economic growth of developing countries has evolved into investigation over whether parts of the service sector can play a propulsive role similar to that played by manufacturing previously. Such investigation is hampered by coarse and changing service sector classifications, but it does appear that some service sectors play such a role. In this paper we take the incremental bu…
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism by Nana Okura Gagné
Reviewed by: Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism by Nana Okura Gagné D. Hugh Whittaker (bio) Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism. By Nana Okura Gagné. Cornell University Press, 2020. xx, 285 pages. $45.00, cloth; $29.99, E-book. This book challenges stereotypes of Japanese "salarymen" by giving them a voice and, with their voice, exploring the nuances in their own accounts of company, …
Beyond secular stagnation: A digital and green economy
This paper looks at ‘Japan’s secular stagnation and beyond’ from the perspective of institutional and ideational change and coherence (or complementarity). The coherence of Japan’s postwar productionist model began to fray in the 1980s, and was lost at both macro and micro levels in the 1990s, contributing to secular stagnation. The paper steers a nuanced path between the view that this stemmed from Japan doggedly maintaining its postwar model, a…
The Dominant Narrative of the New Zealand–China Free Trade Agreement: Peripheral Evidence, Presumptive Tilt and Business Realities
New Zealand (NZ) was the first developed country to sign a free trade agreement with China. Afterwards, the NZ government crafted a narrative to encourage businesses to pursue opportunities there and in emerging Asia more generally to enact the enabling institutional change. Our study shows neoliberal free-trade rhetoric matched and thus likely confirmed businesses’ opportunity perceptions but often mismatched their capabilities and thus interest…
Ronald Dore's Japan
This essay traces the evolution of Ronald Dore's scholarship, and his changing relationship with Japan, through four phases: discovering Japan, Japan as a comparative reference point, Japan as a source of policy inspiration, and disillusionment. In doing so, it highlights Dore's willingness to question received wisdom through careful empirical or historical observation, his sophisticated use of comparison, the importance of time and change in his…
New Zealand's turbulent waters: The Use of Forced Labour in the Fishing Industry
In this article, we make an empirical and conceptual contribution to the emerging debate on unfree labour in the context of labour chains and global value chains. We recast an historical view of poor labour practices aboard some foreign charter vessels fishing in New Zealand's waters as something more nefarious. Applying the International Labour Organization (ILO) and European Commission (EC) operational indicators of human trafficking for forced…
Labour standards and regulation in global value chains: The case of the New Zealand Fishing Industry
Building on the concept of polarity in global value chains, we explore how the nature of the governance of a global value chain can evolve and how contingencies can reshape governance arrangements. A case-study of the New Zealand fishing industry highlights how parties inside and outside the global value chain came to contest labour standards, laying the base for credible regulation. In 2011 through a series of convergent events, migrant crew on …
The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism , edited by Sébastien Lechevalier: Routledge, London, 2014, xxxv+198 pp.
Not in New Zealand's waters, surely? Linking labour issues to GPNs
In 2010, a New Zealand chartered South Korean fishing vessel capsized in the Southern Ocean. The survivors detailed systematic human rights abuses aboard the vessel. This was not the first allegation of abuse aboard foreign vessels in New Zealand’s waters. Using global value chain (GVC)/global production network (GPN) perspectives, this article responds to the call to bring labour back into GVC/GPN analysis. Semi-structured interviews were undert…
Compressed Development
The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan
After sweeping all before it in the 1980s, 'Japanese management' ran into trouble in the 1990s, especially in the high-tech industries, prompting many to declare it had outlived its usefulness. From the late 1990s leading companies embarked on wide-ranging reforms designed to restore their entrepreneurial vigour. For some, this spelled the end of Japanese management; for others, little had changed. From the perspective of the community firm, Inag…
Social Evolution, Economic Development, and Culture: What It Means to Take Japan Seriously
Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture: What It Means to Take Japan Seriously
Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis
Small Firms in the Japanese Economy
Now in paperback, this book considers the role of small firms in the Japanese economy and challenges established views of the Japanese economy, society and political economy. Japan's giant corporations are household names, and dominate our views of the Japanese economy. But surprisingly, Japan also ranks alongside Italy as having the highest proportion of small firms - and employment in them - amongst the OECD countries. These small firms have ei…
Discussion and conclusions
Where will the new jobs come from
Fading star or model for emulation? Lifetime employment, restructuring and unemployment in Japan
It has become fashionable to write off lifetime employment or long‐term employment (LTE) in Japan as a relic of the past. In a sense this is comforting, since it suggests the Japanese are not immune to the maladies of advanced capitalism and industrial decline, and obviates the need to take Japanese employment institutions seriously. Yet it is significant that, even after an unprecedented recession, there is little statistical evidence for the de…
Planning for Change: Industrial Policy and Japanese Economic Development, 1945-1990
What has been the role of government industrial policy in Japan's extraordinary post-war development? How has the role changed in successive phases of growth? What lessons can be learnt from this experience by other nations, be they in the West, or developing countries or economies in transition attempting to introduce competitive market structures? These are some of the main questions addressed in this absorbing and thorough study. Dividing the …
The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures
Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories
Human Capitalism: The Japanese Enterprise Systems as World Model
Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories
The End of Japanese-Style Employment
Japanese-style' employment is confronting serious challenges in the form of rapidly ageing workforces, changing youth attitudes, rising numbers of female employees, new technology, 'internationalization' and 'servicization'. Japanese companies are responding to these challenges with notable innovations in personnel management. These include: 'multitrack employment' with specialist tracks; 'group employment' whereby workers are transferred beyond …
Compressed Development
New Zealand's turbulent waters: The Use of Forced Labour in the Fishing Industry
In this article, we make an empirical and conceptual contribution to the emerging debate on unfree labour in the context of labour chains and global value chains. We recast an historical view of poor labour practices aboard some foreign charter vessels fishing in New Zealand's waters as something more nefarious. Applying the International Labour Organization (ILO) and European Commission (EC) operational indicators of human trafficking for forced…
Not in New Zealand's waters, surely? Linking labour issues to GPNs
In 2010, a New Zealand chartered South Korean fishing vessel capsized in the Southern Ocean. The survivors detailed systematic human rights abuses aboard the vessel. This was not the first allegation of abuse aboard foreign vessels in New Zealand’s waters. Using global value chain (GVC)/global production network (GPN) perspectives, this article responds to the call to bring labour back into GVC/GPN analysis. Semi-structured interviews were undert…
The End of Japanese-Style Employment
Japanese-style' employment is confronting serious challenges in the form of rapidly ageing workforces, changing youth attitudes, rising numbers of female employees, new technology, 'internationalization' and 'servicization'. Japanese companies are responding to these challenges with notable innovations in personnel management. These include: 'multitrack employment' with specialist tracks; 'group employment' whereby workers are transferred beyond …
Beyond secular stagnation: A digital and green economy
This paper looks at ‘Japan’s secular stagnation and beyond’ from the perspective of institutional and ideational change and coherence (or complementarity). The coherence of Japan’s postwar productionist model began to fray in the 1980s, and was lost at both macro and micro levels in the 1990s, contributing to secular stagnation. The paper steers a nuanced path between the view that this stemmed from Japan doggedly maintaining its postwar model, a…
Labour standards and regulation in global value chains: The case of the New Zealand Fishing Industry
Building on the concept of polarity in global value chains, we explore how the nature of the governance of a global value chain can evolve and how contingencies can reshape governance arrangements. A case-study of the New Zealand fishing industry highlights how parties inside and outside the global value chain came to contest labour standards, laying the base for credible regulation. In 2011 through a series of convergent events, migrant crew on …
Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories
Where will the new jobs come from
Fading star or model for emulation? Lifetime employment, restructuring and unemployment in Japan
It has become fashionable to write off lifetime employment or long‐term employment (LTE) in Japan as a relic of the past. In a sense this is comforting, since it suggests the Japanese are not immune to the maladies of advanced capitalism and industrial decline, and obviates the need to take Japanese employment institutions seriously. Yet it is significant that, even after an unprecedented recession, there is little statistical evidence for the de…
The End of Japanese-Style Employment
Japanese-style' employment is confronting serious challenges in the form of rapidly ageing workforces, changing youth attitudes, rising numbers of female employees, new technology, 'internationalization' and 'servicization'. Japanese companies are responding to these challenges with notable innovations in personnel management. These include: 'multitrack employment' with specialist tracks; 'group employment' whereby workers are transferred beyond …
Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories
Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories
Human Capitalism: The Japanese Enterprise Systems as World Model
The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures
Planning for Change: Industrial Policy and Japanese Economic Development, 1945-1990
What has been the role of government industrial policy in Japan's extraordinary post-war development? How has the role changed in successive phases of growth? What lessons can be learnt from this experience by other nations, be they in the West, or developing countries or economies in transition attempting to introduce competitive market structures? These are some of the main questions addressed in this absorbing and thorough study. Dividing the …
Discussion and conclusions
Where will the new jobs come from
Fading star or model for emulation? Lifetime employment, restructuring and unemployment in Japan
It has become fashionable to write off lifetime employment or long‐term employment (LTE) in Japan as a relic of the past. In a sense this is comforting, since it suggests the Japanese are not immune to the maladies of advanced capitalism and industrial decline, and obviates the need to take Japanese employment institutions seriously. Yet it is significant that, even after an unprecedented recession, there is little statistical evidence for the de…
Small Firms in the Japanese Economy
Now in paperback, this book considers the role of small firms in the Japanese economy and challenges established views of the Japanese economy, society and political economy. Japan's giant corporations are household names, and dominate our views of the Japanese economy. But surprisingly, Japan also ranks alongside Italy as having the highest proportion of small firms - and employment in them - amongst the OECD countries. These small firms have ei…
Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis
Social Evolution, Economic Development, and Culture: What It Means to Take Japan Seriously
Social Evolution, Economic Development and Culture: What It Means to Take Japan Seriously
The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan
After sweeping all before it in the 1980s, 'Japanese management' ran into trouble in the 1990s, especially in the high-tech industries, prompting many to declare it had outlived its usefulness. From the late 1990s leading companies embarked on wide-ranging reforms designed to restore their entrepreneurial vigour. For some, this spelled the end of Japanese management; for others, little had changed. From the perspective of the community firm, Inag…
Compressed Development
Not in New Zealand's waters, surely? Linking labour issues to GPNs
In 2010, a New Zealand chartered South Korean fishing vessel capsized in the Southern Ocean. The survivors detailed systematic human rights abuses aboard the vessel. This was not the first allegation of abuse aboard foreign vessels in New Zealand’s waters. Using global value chain (GVC)/global production network (GPN) perspectives, this article responds to the call to bring labour back into GVC/GPN analysis. Semi-structured interviews were undert…
The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism , edited by Sébastien Lechevalier: Routledge, London, 2014, xxxv+198 pp.
New Zealand's turbulent waters: The Use of Forced Labour in the Fishing Industry
In this article, we make an empirical and conceptual contribution to the emerging debate on unfree labour in the context of labour chains and global value chains. We recast an historical view of poor labour practices aboard some foreign charter vessels fishing in New Zealand's waters as something more nefarious. Applying the International Labour Organization (ILO) and European Commission (EC) operational indicators of human trafficking for forced…
Labour standards and regulation in global value chains: The case of the New Zealand Fishing Industry
Building on the concept of polarity in global value chains, we explore how the nature of the governance of a global value chain can evolve and how contingencies can reshape governance arrangements. A case-study of the New Zealand fishing industry highlights how parties inside and outside the global value chain came to contest labour standards, laying the base for credible regulation. In 2011 through a series of convergent events, migrant crew on …
The Dominant Narrative of the New Zealand–China Free Trade Agreement: Peripheral Evidence, Presumptive Tilt and Business Realities
New Zealand (NZ) was the first developed country to sign a free trade agreement with China. Afterwards, the NZ government crafted a narrative to encourage businesses to pursue opportunities there and in emerging Asia more generally to enact the enabling institutional change. Our study shows neoliberal free-trade rhetoric matched and thus likely confirmed businesses’ opportunity perceptions but often mismatched their capabilities and thus interest…
Ronald Dore's Japan
This essay traces the evolution of Ronald Dore's scholarship, and his changing relationship with Japan, through four phases: discovering Japan, Japan as a comparative reference point, Japan as a source of policy inspiration, and disillusionment. In doing so, it highlights Dore's willingness to question received wisdom through careful empirical or historical observation, his sophisticated use of comparison, the importance of time and change in his…
Beyond secular stagnation: A digital and green economy
This paper looks at ‘Japan’s secular stagnation and beyond’ from the perspective of institutional and ideational change and coherence (or complementarity). The coherence of Japan’s postwar productionist model began to fray in the 1980s, and was lost at both macro and micro levels in the 1990s, contributing to secular stagnation. The paper steers a nuanced path between the view that this stemmed from Japan doggedly maintaining its postwar model, a…
Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism by Nana Okura Gagné
Reviewed by: Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism by Nana Okura Gagné D. Hugh Whittaker (bio) Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism. By Nana Okura Gagné. Cornell University Press, 2020. xx, 285 pages. $45.00, cloth; $29.99, E-book. This book challenges stereotypes of Japanese "salarymen" by giving them a voice and, with their voice, exploring the nuances in their own accounts of company, …
Premature deindustrialization, inter-sectoral employment shifts, and accelerated servicization
Concern about the implications of ‘premature deindustrialization’ for economic growth of developing countries has evolved into investigation over whether parts of the service sector can play a propulsive role similar to that played by manufacturing previously. Such investigation is hampered by coarse and changing service sector classifications, but it does appear that some service sectors play such a role. In this paper we take the incremental bu…
Introduction: Secular stagnation in East Asia
The countries of East Asia face headwinds that inhibit economic growth, making economic stagnation a conceivable, if not inevitable, outcome. These headwinds include a declining and ageing population, inadequate domestic demand, competition from a new generation of emerging economies, and geopolitical uncertainty in the region. Japan is so far the only East Asian country to have experienced prolonged economic stagnation. There are fears that Japa…
Economics (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Business (13 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (5 works) · Economic system (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Economy (4 works)