Globalisation and Japanese organisational culture an ethnography of a Japanese corporation in France

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.

Introduction -- Japan's globalisation and a "subsidiary" in France -- Personalising socio-technical relations -- Translating power in hierarchy : seen and unseen organising -- Mobilising architectures of timing and spacing : ethnographies of locations, histories of social relations -- Circulating others among Japanese managers : perceiving difference, explaining to ourselves -- Postscript: circulating others among anthropologists : perceiving similarity, examining ourselves.

"Globalisation - the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images - increasingly takes place through the work of organizations, perhaps the most powerful of which are multinational corporations. Based in an ethnographic analysis of cross-cultural social interactions in everyday workplace practices at a subsidiary of an elite, Japanese consumer electronics multinational in France, this book intimately examines, and theorises, contemporary global dynamics."--BOOK JACKET.