Self-renewal of corporate organizations: equilibrium, self-sustaining, and self-renewing models / Tsuyoshi Numagami, Toshizumi Ohta and Ikujiro Nonaka -- Self-organization in informatics / Haruo Hata and Charles Adamson -- Epistemological types and creative environment / Magoroh Maruyama -- What can we learn from biological networks? / Vera Calenbuhr -- Japanese management as a set of cybernetic principles of managing human systems / Tetsunori Koizumi -- Group decision making in the 'self-organization' perspective / Haruo Takagi -- Progressive and degenerative problemshifts of organizations: organizational evolutionism based on critical rationalism / Kenshu Kikuzawa -- Neural network simulation of QC circle activities / Shigekazu Ishihara [and others] -- Population ecology versus network dynamics: from evolution to co-evolution / Frank-Jürgen Richter and Yoshiya Teramoto -- Comparative management systems: trade-offs-free concept / Milan Zeleny -- Communicating through on-line database systems: a strategy for monitoring corporate environments / Nobuyuki Chikudate -- Autonomous anticipative management and its evolutionary process / Kenji Tanaka
Summary
This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by which a Japanese company organizes itself, exploring such areas as networks, informatics, quality control circles and human systems management
