One Hundred Years of Management
American Paradigms and the Japanese Management “Reloaded”
Institute of Management
Department of Management and Organization
Supervisor: Prof. Miklós Dobák
© Balázs Vaszkun, 2012
In spite of its European roots, management, as a field of study or science, was born in the United States of America. “Management is an American term and an American creation”, writes Locke (1996: 1). Therefore, we must start our investigation for the evolution of management in the “New World”. But in order to study change, it seems logical to direct special attention to Japan as well, the country which heavily impacted American management. Japan is even more interesting due to her fascinating story of rising to the “second biggest” position after World War II, and then fading with the bubble burst. How has management evolved in the States and how could Japan take over such a great share of the global trade? Was it just an inevitable “paradigm shift”? For somebody familiar with Taylor, Mayo, Fayol, Drucker and other “gurus” of
management, the U.S. seems to evolve through distinctive phases or paradigms
somehow separate from each other. How was this once powerful Japanese management system created and why could it not retain its supremacy? Did those evolutionary changes follow a logical pattern and can they be explained? These questions will serve as a structure for the following chapters.
http://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/701/1/Vaszkun_Balazs_den.pdf
American Paradigms and the Japanese Management “Reloaded”
Institute of Management
Department of Management and Organization
Supervisor: Prof. Miklós Dobák
© Balázs Vaszkun, 2012
In spite of its European roots, management, as a field of study or science, was born in the United States of America. “Management is an American term and an American creation”, writes Locke (1996: 1). Therefore, we must start our investigation for the evolution of management in the “New World”. But in order to study change, it seems logical to direct special attention to Japan as well, the country which heavily impacted American management. Japan is even more interesting due to her fascinating story of rising to the “second biggest” position after World War II, and then fading with the bubble burst. How has management evolved in the States and how could Japan take over such a great share of the global trade? Was it just an inevitable “paradigm shift”? For somebody familiar with Taylor, Mayo, Fayol, Drucker and other “gurus” of
management, the U.S. seems to evolve through distinctive phases or paradigms
somehow separate from each other. How was this once powerful Japanese management system created and why could it not retain its supremacy? Did those evolutionary changes follow a logical pattern and can they be explained? These questions will serve as a structure for the following chapters.
http://phd.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/701/1/Vaszkun_Balazs_den.pdf
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