ABSTRACT
Limitations of space prevent us from fully developing some of the more theoretical aspects of our analysis of economic systems and their relations to organisation forms and employment practices, though this is discussed more adequately elsewhere [1]. Even on the basis of fairly perfunctory consideration, however, certain conclusions seem clear in general outline. Once considered in terms of the comparative analysis of socio-economic systems it is immediately obvious that, in existing discussions of Japanisation, there is over-emphasis on the business enterprise or organisational level of analysis and the policies of
Source: Industrial Relations Journal (Spring 1988), 19(1): 11-23.
