selected manufacturing companies located in Japan in respect to their key business perspectives focused on people, processes … a fundamental transformation of mature societies (in particular in USA, Japan and Western Europe). Design … performance measurement in Japan as well as semi-structured interviews with managers within manufacturing companies located in …

Administrative counselling (AC) is a unique feature of Japan’s public sector. Comparable to a decentralised “shop front … program evaluation at a time when Japan’s public sector is in crisis and probably at a turning point in its history. A central … standing may mean that it is not capable of implementation outside of Japan. While implementation of AC in non‐Japanese public …

context of public sector reform in Japan. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the two principal alternative …‐American (occidental) versions of NPM may not be appropriate in the context of public sector reform in Japan. Attempts to achieve a … Occupying Power, the United States, and mimicked from its Anglo‐American contexts by Japan's political elite may, paradoxically …

establish the relevant work practices. In Japan such practices are firmly embedded in favourable cultural beliefs and …