Abstract

U.S. Sociologist James C. Abegglen wrote about 50 years ago that lifetime employment, the seniority system and company unions are the three distinctive features of Japanese business. The three principles cited by Abegglen actually played a major part in the miraculous rehabilitation of the Japanese economy from the ruins of the war. This article doesn't only introduce Japanese scholar Hiroshi HAZAMA'S & Masumi TSUDA'S theories of Japanese business management, but also do comparison research on these two Japanese scholar's theories. Professor HAZAMA has pointed out that before World WarⅡ the Japanese Principle of Family Management was used. After World WarⅡ it changed to the Principle of Welfare Management. He suggested that the Enterprise Community and Collectivism were the key elements before and after the war. Professor TSUDA has presented his own Japanese business Management theory by the three processes as Japanese business management and collectivism, Japanese business management and community life, and Japanese business management and enterprise community. Finally, he used enterprise community to explain and describe the Japanese business management. He also pointed out that the American community is individualism, but Japanese community is Collectivism. Professor TSUDA'S Japanese business management theory has pointed out that before World WarⅡ the Japanese principle of family management was used. And after World WarⅡ it changed to the enterprise community. He suggested that the collectivism and enterprise community were the key elements before and after World WarⅡ.

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