“Innovation and Change in Japanese Management” Will Be On Sale in January
Parissa’s latest book „Innovation and Change in Japanese Management”will be on sale from January.
The mystic image of Japanese management changed during the recession of the 1990s. Japanese corporations had problems adapting to the economic challenges and were slow in the implementation of reforms and restructuring measures. They were expected to develop more shareholder value and become more like their Western counterparts. Western observers and news criticized Japanese corporations and managers for being too consensus and harmony oriented, and not being able to deal with crisis or rapid changes. But Japan and Japanese management did change. In many cases these changes were not as radical or as spectacular as expected. Western suggestions and business models were not completely ignored, but many of them are not applicable in a Japanese context. Japan and Japanese management changed in its own way, in a Japanese Way. ‘Innovation and Change in Japanese Management’ shows which transformation processes and changes can be observed in Japanese companies in reaction to the economic challenges of the past decade. The book presents new research results and investigates the variety of changes that Japanese corporations and managers have experienced in recent years.
The Editor
PARISSA HAGHIRIAN is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She obtained her Master’s in Japanese Studies from Vienna University (1998) and was awarded a Master’s Degree (2000) and PhD in International Management (2003) by Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Parissa is also a visiting professor at Groupe HEC in Paris, Helsinki School of Economics, Keio Business School and an adjunct professor at Temple University in Tokyo. Parissa’s research and consulting interests include Japanese management, market entries of Western firms into the Japanese market, and Japanese consumer behaviour.
