Dissertation on Sino-Japan Management
People communicating with readers on their books publications or research, it’s a good way to gather some other ideas and interesting thoughts. I’m currently dealing with my dissertation (yes, finally it comes to my schedule seriously), why not putting it here and discuss with friends and readers of this blog?
My dissertation is going to be on “a cultural aspect of Sino-Japan Management”. I know there are lots of paper on this subject before and it’s hard to have some new finding on a single dissertation (8,000 words limit), but personally I’m very interested on this topic and want to read about it. My biggest curiosity is that both country are based on Confucianism yet has been developed very differently. To outsiders (I meant those who didn’t really look into the difference of Chinese and Japanese culture), Asia countries are similar. Indeed, the difference between China and Japan is less than the east and the west, however there are many differences between these two countries in many aspects, specially in cultural one. And in management, which is everything to do with people, how to manage people from these two cultures trigger my interest a lot.
Right now I’m reading a book called “Intercultural Management in China - Strategies of Sino-European and Sino-Japanese Joint Venture” by Nikolaus S. Lang. It’s a very interesting book and if you are interested it’s recommended to have a read.
Need to hand out the first draft by the end of this month, Errr….
*jenn Said,
January 20, 2007 @ 4:17 pm
jia you jia you!
Katrina Said,
January 24, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
wow~almost forgot that.
I’ll send you articles if I get some.
Richard.H Said,
January 24, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
I’m alright at the moment. Those I’ve in hand is already way more than I can read.
Valen Said,
January 25, 2007 @ 1:52 am
emm..quite intresting!i want to read ur “final draft”~~
Richard.H Said,
January 25, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
OK! Might publish it as a PDF when I finish. But depend how happy I’m with it though.
Eric Said,
January 26, 2007 @ 5:14 am
My BA dissertation is also about china and Japan comparison,especially on the recruitment system of its elite civil service.Most of my findings are drawed up from the cultural perspective or so…
Your topic seems so interesting exactly,but to figure out some points out of the Cliches and the common senses is what you might think of.
Japan ….”Fixed”and “floating”
Richard.H Said,
January 28, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
“recruitment system of its elite civil service”, that’s very specific and it’s good for academic work. I’m still trying to specify and narrow my dissertation, because the one I’m having is too broad for a single dissertation. It would be interesting to read about your work in future at some point :)
Thanks for your advices, I will take them into consideration.
Japan, indeed is a country we need to understand more as a Chinese.