A succession of studies have suggested that management-dominated work organization
can deliver productivity alongside participation and reward for employees generally.
Examination of the Japanese political economy before the traumas of the 1990s shows
that it was a critical case of management-dominated work organization in an
environment uniquely facilitative of innovation in work practice and its diffusion.
However, detailed consideration of Japanese manufacturing shows that the sector was
not generally characterized by comparatively participative, rewarding and productive
work organization. The Japanese experience suggests that the potential for mutual
gains under management-dominated work organization tends to be overstated.
Adler, Paul S.
and
Robert E. Cole
(1994)
‘Rejoinder’
, Sloan Management Review35(2):
45-49
.
2.
Appelbaum, Eileen
and
Rosemary Batt
(1994) The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems
in the United States.
Ithaca, NY: ILR Press
.
3.
Appelbaum, Eileen
,
Thomas Bailey
,
Peter Berg
and
Arne L. Kalleberg
(2000) Manufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work
Systems Pay Off.
London: Cornell University Press
.
4.
Ashton, David N.
and
Francis Green
(1996) Education, Training and the Global Economy.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
.
5.
Auer, Peter
and
Lowell Turner
(1994)
‘A Diversity of New Work Organisation: Human-Centred, Lean and In-Between’
, Industrielle Beziehungen1(1):
39-61
.
6.
Batstone, Eric
(1984) Working Order: Workplace Industrial Relations over Two
Decades.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell
.
7.
Berggren, Christian
(1993)
‘Lean Production: The End of History?’
, Work, Employment and Society7(2):
163-188
.
8.
Berggren, Christian
(1994a) The Volvo Experience: Alternatives to Lean Production
in the Swedish Auto Industry.
London: Macmillan
.
9.
Berggren, Christian
(1994b)
‘NUMMI versus Uddevalla’
, Sloan Management Review35(2):
35-44
.
10.
Berggren, Christian
and
Masami Nomura
(1997) The Resilience of Corporate Japan: New Strategies and
Personnel Practices.
London: Chapman
.
11.
BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
(2001) ‘International Comparisons of Manufacturing
Productivity and Unit Labour Cost Trends: Output per Hour in Manufacturing, 14
Countries or Areas, 1950-2000’; at: stats.bls.gov/
12.
Cappelli, Peter
and
Daniel Neumark
(2001)
‘Do High Performance Work Practices Improve Establishment Level Outcomes?’
, Industrial and Labor Relations Review54(4):
737-775
.
13.
Carlin, Wendy
,
Andrew Glyn
and
John Van Reenan
(2001)
‘Export Market Performance of OECD Countries: An Empirical
Examination of the Role of Cost Competitiveness’
, Economic Journal111(468):
128-162
.
14.
Coates, David
(2000) Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the
Modern Era.
Cambridge: Polity Press
.
15.
Cole, Robert
(1989) Strategies for Learning: Small Group Activities in
American, Japanese and Swedish Industry.
Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press
.
16.
Cowling, Keith
(1990) ‘The Strategic Approach to Economic and
Industrial Policy’, pp. 6-34 in
Keith Cowling
and
Roger Sugden
(eds) A New Economic Policy for Britain: Essays on the Development of
Industry.
Manchester: Manchester University Press
.
17.
Crouch, Colin
,
David Finegold
and
Mari Sako
(1999) Are Skills the Answer? The Political Economy of Skill
Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
18.
Cusumano, Michael A.
(1985) The Japanese Automotive Industry.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
.
19.
Delbridge, Rick
(1998) Life on the Line in Contemporary Manufacturing: The
Work-place Experience of Lean Production and the Japanese Model.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
20.
Dohse, Knuth
,
Ulrich Jurgens
and
Thomas Malsch
(1985)
‘From “Fordism” to
“Toyotism”? The Social Organisation of the Labor Process
in the Japanese Automobile Industry’
, Politics and Society14(2):
115-146
.
21.
Dore, Ronald
(1994) ‘Equality-Efficiency Trade-Offs: Japanese
Perceptions and Choices’, pp. 379-392
in
Masahiko Aoki
and
Ronald Dore
(eds) The Japanese Firm.
Oxford: Clarendon
.
22.
Dore, Ronald
(1997) ‘The Distinctiveness of
Japan’, pp. 19-32 in
Colin Crouch
and
Wolfgang Streeck
(eds) Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and
Diversity.
London: Sage
.
23.
Dore, Ronald
,
William Lazonick
and
Mary O’Sullivan
(1999)
‘Varieties of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century’
, Oxford Review of Economic Policy15(4):
102-120
.
24.
Edwards, Paul
(2001) The Puzzle of Work: Autonomy and Commitment plus
Discipline and Insecurity. SKOPE Research Paper No. 16, Summer.
25.
Edwards, Tony
(1998) Multi-National Companies and the Diffusion of
Employment Practices: A Survey of the Literature. Warwick Papers in
Industrial Relations, No. 61, November.
26.
Elger, Tony
and
Chris Smith
(1994a) ‘Introduction’, pp.
1-26 in
Tony Elger
and
Chris Smith
(eds) Global Japanization? The Transnational Transformation of the
Labour Process.
London: Routledge
.
27.
Elger, Tony
and
Chris Smith
(1994b) ‘Global Japanization? Convergence and
Competition in the Organization of the Labour Process’, pp.
31-54 in
Tony Elger
and
Chris Smith
(eds) Global Japanization? The Transnational Transformation of the
Labour Process.
London: Routledge
.
28.
Elger, Tony
and
Chris Smith
, eds (1994c) Global Japanization? The Transnational
Transformation of the Labour Process.
London: Routledge
.
29.
Englander, Stephen
and
Andrew Gurney
(1994)
‘Medium-Term Determinants of OECD Productivity’
, OECD Economic Studies22:
49-109
.
30.
Esping-Andersen, Gosta
(1990) The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.
London: Polity
.
31.
Esping-Andersen, Gosta
, ed. (1996) Welfare States in Transition: National
Adaptations in Global Economies.
London: Sage
.
32.
Fox, Alan
(1974) Man Mismanagement.
London: Hutchison
.
33.
Freeman, Richard
(1994) ‘How Labor Fares in Advanced
Economies’, pp. 1-28 in
R. Freeman
(ed.) Working Under Different Rules.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation
.
34.
Genda, Y.
and
Mark Rebick
(2000)
‘Japanese Labour in the 1990s: Stability and Stagnation’
, Oxford Review of Economic Policy16(2):
85-102
.
35.
Glyn, Andrew
(1997)
‘Does Aggregate Profitability Really Matter?’
, Cambridge Journal of Economics21:
593-619
.
36.
Godard, John
(1997)
‘Whither Strategic Choice: Do Managerial IR Ideologies Matter?’
, Industrial Relations36(2):
206-228
.
37.
Golden, Miriam
(1997) Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
.
38.
Gordon, David M.
(1996) Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working
Americans and the Myth of Managerial Downsizing.
London: Free Press
.
39.
Graham, Laurie
(1995) On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu: The Japanese Model and
the American Worker.
Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press
.
40.
Hall, Peter. A.
and
David Soskice
, eds (2001) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional
Foundations of Competitive Performance.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
41.
Huselid, Mark A.
(1995)
‘The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Turnover,
Productivity, and Corporate Financial Performance’
, Academy of Management Journal38(3):
635-672
.
42.
Ichniowski, Casey
,
Thomas A. Kochan
,
David Levine
,
Craig Olson
and
George Strauss
(1996)
‘What Works at Work: Overview and Assessment’
, Industrial Relations35(3):
299-333
.
43.
Ishida, Mitsuo
(1997) ‘Japan: Beyond the Model for Lean
Production’, pp. 47-60 in
Thomas Kochan
,
Russell D. Lansbury
and
John Paul MacDuffie
(eds) After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World
Auto Industry.
London: ILR Press
.
44.
Iversen, Torben
(1998)
‘Wage Bargaining, Central Bank Independence and the Real Effects
of Money’
, International Organisation52 (Summer).
45.
Jacoby, S. M.
(1997) Modern Manors Welfare Capitalism Since the New
Deal.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
.
46.
Johnson, Chalmers
(1995) Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental
State.
London: Norton
.
47.
Jurgens, Ulrich
,
Thomas Malsch
and
Knuth Dohse
(1993) Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the
Automobile Industry.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
.
48.
Kamada, Toshiko
(1994) ‘ “Japanese
Management” and the “Loaning” of Labour:
Restructuring in the Japanese Iron and Steel Industry’, pp.
91-111 in
Tony Elger
and
Chris Smith
(eds) Global Japanization? The Transnational Transformation of the
Labour Process.
London: Routledge
.
49.
Katz, Harry
and
Owen Darbishire
(2000). Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in
Employment Systems.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
.
50.
Kochan, Thomas
,
Robert McKersie
and
Peter Cappelli
(1984)
‘Strategic Choice and Industrial Relations Theory’
, Industrial Relations23(1):
16-39
.
51.
Kochan, Thomas
,
Harry Katz
and
Robert McKersie
(1986) The Transformation of American Industrial
Relations.
New York: Basic
.
52.
Kohler, Christoph
(1995)
‘Arbeits-und Produktions-systeme im internationalen Vergleich -
Deutschland, Spanien, Frankreich und Japan’
, Industrielle Beziehungen2(3):
223-255
.
53.
Korpi, Walter
and
Joachim Palme
(1998)
‘The Paradox of Redistribution and the Strategy of Equality’
, American Sociological Review63(5):
661-687
.
54.
Locke, Richard
and
Thomas Kochan
(1995) ‘Conclusion’, pp.
359-384 in
Richard, Locke
,
Thomas Kochan
and
Michael Piore
(eds) Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy.
London: MIT Press
.
55.
Locke, Richard
,
Michael Piore
and
Thomas Kochan
(1995) ‘Introduction’, pp.
xiii-xxix in
Richard, Locke
,
Thomas Kochan
and
Michael Piore
(eds) Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy.
London: MIT Press
.
56.
Morris, J.
,
J. Lowe
and
B. Wilkinson
(1998)
‘Front End Reflections: Supervisory Systems in the UK’s
Japanese Transplants and in “Japanized” Companies’
, Employee Relations20(3):
261-270
.
57.
OECD
(1994) New Orientations for Social Policy.
Paris: OECD
.
Oliver, Nick
,
Rick Delbridge
and
Jeremy Lowe
(1998)
‘Japanization on the Shop-floor’
, Employee Relations20(3):
248-260
.
60.
Pil, Frits
and
John Paul MacDuffie
(1996)
‘The Adoption of High-Involvement Work Practices’
, Industrial Relations35(3):
423-455
.
61.
Pilat, Dirk
(1996a) Labour Productivity Levels in OECD Countries:
Estimates for Manufacturing and Selected Service Sectors. OECD Economics
Department Working Papers, No. 169.
Paris: OECD
.
Porter, Michael
(1990) The Competitive Advantage of Nations.
London: Macmillan
.
64.
Porter, Michael
,
Hirotaka Takeuchi
and
Mariko Sakakibara
(2000) Can Japan Compete?London: Macmillan
.
65.
Purcell, John
(1991)
‘The Rediscovery of the Management Prerogative: The Management of
Labour Relations in the 1980s’
, Oxford Review of Economic Policy7:
33-43
.
66.
Roth, Siegfried
(1997) ‘Germany: Labor’s Perspective
on Lean Production’, pp. 117-136 in
Thomas Kochan
,
Russell D. Lansbury
and
John Paul MacDuffie
(eds) After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World
Auto Industry.
London: ILR Press
.
67.
Rowthorn, Robert E.
(1992)
‘Centralisation, Employment and Wage Dispersion’
, Economic Journal102 (May):
506-523
.
68.
Sako, Mari
(1996)
‘Suppliers’ Associations in the Japanese Auto Industry:
Collective Action for Technology Diffusion’
, Cambridge Journal of Economics20:
651-671
.
69.
Sako, Mari
(1998)
‘The Nature and Impact of Employee “Voice” in
the European Car Components Industry’
, Human Resource Management Journal8(2):
5-13
.
70.
Sandberg, Ake
(1995) ‘The Uddevalla Experience in
Perspective’, in
A. Sandberg
(ed.) Enriching Production.
Aldershot: Avebury
.
71.
Springer, Roland
(1999)
‘The End of New Production Concepts? Rationalization and Labour
Policy in the German Auto Industry’
, Economic and Industrial Democracy20(1):
117-145
.
72.
Steven, Rob
(1983) Classes in Contemporary Japan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
.
73.
Storey, John
(1983) Managerial Prerogative and the Question of
Control.
London: RKP
.
74.
Streeck, Wolfgang
(1997) ‘German Capitalism: Does it Exist? Can it
Survive?’, pp. 33-54 in
Colin Crouch
and
Wolfgang Streeck
(eds) Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and
Diversity.
London: Sage
.
75.
Tachibanaki, Toshiaki
(1996) Wage Determination and Distribution in Japan.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
76.
Thelen, Kathleen
(2001) ‘Comparative Labor
Politics’, pp. 71-113 in
Peter. A. Hall
and
David Soskice
(eds) Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of
Competitive Performance.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
77.
Totsuka, Hideo
(1995) ‘The Transformation of Japanese
Industrial Relations: A Case Study of the Auto Industry’, pp.
108-128 in
Steve Babson
(ed.) Lean Work: Empowerment and Exploitation in the Global Auto
Industry.
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press
.
78.
Traxler, Franz
,
Sabine Blaschke
and
Bernhard Kittel
(2001) National Labour Relations in Internationalized
Markets.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
79.
Turner, Lowell
(1991) Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the
Future of Labor Unions.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
.
80.
UN (United Nations)
(1994) International Trade Statistics Yearbook, Vol. 1.
New York: UN
.
81.
Vernon, Guy (2000) ‘Work Humanization: Comparative Historical
Developments in the Manufacturing Sectors of Advanced Capitalist Societies,
1960-1995’, PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
82.
Williams, Karel
,
Colin Haslam
,
John Williams
and
Tony Cutler
with
Andy Adcroft
and
Sukhdev Johal
(1992)
‘Against Lean Production’
, Employment and Society21(3):
321-354
.
83.
Womack, James P.
,
Daniel T. Jones
and
Daniel Roos
, eds (1990) The Machine that Changed the World.
Oxford: Macmillan
.
84.
Wood, Stephen
(1991)
‘Japanization and/or Toyotaism’
, Work, Employment and Society5(4):
567-600
.
85.
Wood, Stephen
(1993)
‘The Japanization of Fordism’
, Economic and Industrial Democracy14(4):
535-555
.
86.
Zysman, John
(1983) Governments, Markets and Growth.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
.
