Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5789282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tomoko Hamada Connolly (William & Mary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 346-350 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Japan Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1465 • E-ISSN: 1468-2680 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ssjj/jyn043 |
| OpenAlex | W2113638830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
The term globalization describes the ever-increasing flow of information, goods, capital, ideas and people across political and geographic boundaries. It is distinct from internationalization, which refers to the increased importance of relations between nations. Internationalization uses the nation as the basic unit of analysis, whereas globalization refers to an integration that blurs national boundaries. In the social sciences, earlier studies of globalization were dominated by macro-level analyses (cf. Appadurai 1996; Castells 1996; Hannerz 1996; Benkler 1997) that aimed to construct a universally applicable theory to understand unfolding phenomena. Some scholars have become highly critical of uncontrolled globalization in tandem with the spread of neo-liberalism ideology (cf. Harvey 2005; Stiglitz 2003). Whether one is for or against globalization, it is undeniable that it affects how we live and work everyday, construct collective identities, exchange ideas and build our moral universe. Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture: An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France presents an empirical examination of globalization. Instead of arguing in favor of or against globalization, the book investigates the process of how globalization works at one specifically local site, namely, a Japanese multinational company's French subsidiary that produces magnetic products such as digital videotapes. Author Mitchell Sedgwick gives the French plant the pseudonym YamaMax. In this plant, Sedgwick investigates how socioeconomic networks that extend beyond national boundaries are nonetheless still tied to the local organizational context of the firm. The author views this multinational setting as the constant process of what Bakhtin (1981) called 'transposition-induced hybridity' at work, where actors of different cultural backgrounds 'co-produce' organizing principles over time
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |