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Lectures

(Lecturer: Ian Crawford. Note: I have directly copied some of his notes, as well as adding my own).

  • Lecture 1 - Japanese management and its impact on the West

Zaibatsu

Keiretsu

Highly protectionist activities

Change

Downsides to Japanese management

Dark side of Japanese management in the 1990s

Potential Reasons

The great management myth?

The China syndrome?

  • Lecture 2 - Management in Chinese SOEs

Economic strength of SOEs

Reform pressure

Structure and power of SOEs

Distortions and outcomes of central planning

Two stage reform period

The Sichuan experiment

Western governance reforms

Effects of "Corporatization"

The Learning Organisation

Change motivation

Chinese culture

Chinese management and tradition

Sinoelectronics - Case study

Other studies and remarks on Chinese management

Conclusions

  • Lecture 3 - Management in other Chinese Enterprises

Converging management?

Chinese management

Weaknesses

Guanxi

Guanxi guanxi everywhere...

More on CFBs

Ding & Akhtar's Matrix

Transfer abroad

Organisational culture change

  • Lecture 4 - Management in Taiwan

Culture-organisational background

Laoban characteristics

Structure

Effectiveness of structure

Guanxiqiye

Management problems

Problems and solutions

Implications for management

Internationalisation of Taiwanese firms

Superior strategies

Further superiority

  • Lecture 5 - South Korea - Management Jurassic Park

Chaebol

Lee's management challenges

Lee explained

Corporate behaviour

Effects of law reforms

Reality

Social Pact 1998

Korean HRM abroad

Corporate culture

Post 1997

  • Lecture 6 - Korea - Adaptive Pressure

Background

Management under stress

HRM abroad

HRM cultural traits

Characteristics/paradoxes

Change?

Leadership

 

 

 Copyright Heledd Straker 2006

Go placidly amid the noise and haste