Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space

2009. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-349-52961-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kurihara, T.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Japanese Labour Market and the Structuring of Social Relations in the Company by Gender Experiencing Social Structure at the Point of Recruitment and the Tracking System Analyzing Social Structure in the Workplace Through Experience The Workplace as a Symbolic Community The Office Space and Social Relations The Impact of Interactive Technology on Social Dynamics in the Office

Über Autor(innen)

TOMOKO KURIHARA is Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Cambridge University, UK. He was formally an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, working with Don Slater at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.