2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Management and Industrial Relations at Yawata Steel Works in the 1950s and 1960s
| Project/Area Number |
21530331
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Tateshi 東京大学, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (00116683)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 労使関係 / 経営合理化 / 団体交渉 / 八幡製鉄所 |
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| Research Abstract |
In the 1980s the emergence of Japanese Companies as remarkably competitive manufacturers in the global markets urged researchers to look into the institutional arrangements which made Japanese companies competitive. One of the factors which were supposed to help companies to be competitive was the participation of workers in daily management at shop floors. Despite the fact that participation of workers has been accepted as a factor contributing to'Japanese Success', few research has been done on the relation of the practice of management and actual working of industrial relations in an enterprise.
This study tries to mend the research situation which has so far failed to identify the causal relation between the practice of management and the development of industrial relations at enterprise level by focusing on one of representative enterprise and analyzing the behavior of management and labor unions in such enterprise.
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