Americanization and Postwar Japanese Management A Bibliographical Approach

Takenori SAITO

doi:10.5029/jrbh1984.12.5

Americanization and Postwar Japanese Management

A Bibliographical Approach

Takenori SAITO

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1996 Volume 12 Pages 5-22

DOI https://doi.org/10.5029/jrbh1984.12.5

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Published: March 15, 1996 Received: - Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: CITATION Details: Right : 1The following works were used by the author in the research for this paper and were helpful in its production:Takenori Saito,“Nihon Keieigaku no keifu”[Business administration in Japan:A genealogy],in Hidetoshi Suzuki,ed.,Keiei gakusetsu[Theories of business administration],Dobunkan,1976;Saito,Keiei kanri ron no kiso[Basics of business management theory],Dobunkan,1983(the supplement to chap.1,pp.48-58);Saito,“Keieisha kyoiku”[Education of managers],in Shin'ichi Yonekawa,ed.,Keiei shi[History of management],Dobunkan,1986;Saito,“Nihon ni okeru keieigaku”[Business administration in Japan],in Hidetoshi Suzuki,ed.,Keieigaku soron[Introduction to business administration],2nd ed.,Seibundo,1989;Takashi Namiki et al.,Monozukuri o ichiryu ni shita otokotachi-Nihonteki keiei kanri no ayumi o tadoru[Men who made making things first-rate:Tracing the path of Japanese-style management],Nikkan Kogyo Shinbunsha,1993.
2Mitsubishi Electric,ed.,Kengyo kaiko[Our founding:Recollections],1951,p.72.
3For more information on these matters,please consult the following of my works:Ueno Yoichi-hito to gyoseki[Yoichi Ueno:The man and his achievements],Sanno Institute of Business Administration,1983;Ueno Yoichi to keieigaku no paionia[Yoichi Ueno and pioneers in business administration],Sanno Institute of Business Administration,1987(this work throws light on the exchanges between Ueno and other scientific management proponents,particularly American,and gives some idea of the Americanization taking place at the time);“Ueno Yoichi to kagakuteki kanri no kokusaika”[Yoichi Ueno and the internationalization of scientific management],in Shogaku ronshu(Fukushima University),vol.57no.2,1989;“Kagakuteki kanri no kokusaika to teira shugisha no koryu”[The internationalization of scientific management and exchanges among Taylor followers],in Terushi Hara,ed.,Kagakuteki kanri ho no donyu to tenkai-sono rekishiteki kokusai hikaku[The introduction and development of scientific management:A historical international comparison],Showado,1990(this work is mainly concerned with exchanges that took place between America and Europe)
4For more on these two events,please see the two books of mine given in note3.
5Nakanishi would later,after the end of the war,distance himself from this position,and he turned his interests to research on cost accounting and administrative finance.
6Academic lecturers had,in1926,founded the Nihon Keiei Gakkai[Japan Society of Business Administration].
7The1984second edition of The Golden Book of Management(edited by L.Urwich,eminent British business scholar,and a team of other scholars and originally published in1956),mentions108pioneers in business research from around the world.The list includes53Americans,15British,9French,and8German researchers.Seven Japanese make the list.Besides three who have not been mentioned in this paper(Teijiro Ueda,Fukumatsu Muramoto,Yasutaro Hirai,and so on),the book mentions Torao Nakanishi,Yoichi Ueno,and Keiji Baba.Except for Ueno,all were leading teachers involved in higher business education.
8The spiritual backbone of the Japan Productivity Center was Kohei Goshi.His work,Bunmei no katasumi kara[From a corner of culture](Tokyo Shobo,1960),is invaluable for anyone wishing to learn his thinking at this time.
9This is why Japanese companies rarely placed those of its employees whom they sent overseas to obtain an MBA at some professional school in Europe or the United States into positions or tasks that were suitable to their qualifications upon their return to Japan.

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