21st-Century Japanese Management: New Systems, Lasting Values

Japan’s economy and businesses are entering this century with new management systems but their values unchanged. Drawing on the author’s analysis of the 1950s, financial systems, personnel management methods, role of the corporation and R&D capabilities are re-assessed to provide a comprehensive analysis of Japan’s financial and industrial changes.

JAMES C. ABEGGLEN is Chairman of Asia Advisory Services and a Director of Learning Technologies, the Nippon Fund and Nikkei Science. He serves on the advisory committees of Grove International, Summitomo, Shoji and the American Management Association. A founding partner of the Boston Consulting Group, he established the first international consultancy in Japan for BCG in 1966. He started his own firm in 1984 as he assumed a professorship at Sophia University. He has spent more than thirty years in Japan as a management consultant and academic, and is now a Japanese citizen.