MANAGEMENT IN ASIAN MARKETS

The course aims at providing basic empirical knowledge on the working and management environment in contemporary Japan and, through this study, to gain a better understanding of the changing Asian markets and globalization.

Knowledge and understanding:
- to know and understand the basic Japanese work and management environment
- to know and understand fundamental theoretical, historical, and methodological tools within inter-disciplinary social theory for an advanced study
- to deepen the knowledge and understanding of contemporary globalization through the analysis of Japanese society within Asian markets

Applying knowledge and understanding:
- to apply the knowledge and tools you have learned in this course to find things that interest you
- to apply the knowledge and tools you have learned in this course to analyze and interpret what interests you

Making judgments:
- to use independent judgments on cultural and social issues that are part of the program by using solid arguments
- to utilize various types of sources (statistic, academic, alternative) to examine cultural and social issues that are part of the program
- to exercise judgment within a comparative, trans-cultural and global perspective

Communication:
- to express and elaborate the contents of the program in written form without depending on automatic, schematic and mnemonic study
- to write an essay in Japanese, using the knowledge and tools you learned in this course on things that interest you
- to present and discuss the content of an essay in Japanese

It is recommended that students possess an intermediate level of Japanese language (N3) in order to be able to integrate and deepen issues presented during classes. Moreover, It is desirable that the students possess already a good knowledge of modern and contemporary Japanese history.

Contemporary Japanese working and management environment within Asian markets

This class will cover two main topics:
1) The working and management environment in contemporary Japan
2) Changes in the Asian market and globalization

All slides of the lessons will be available on the moodle platform dedicated to the course.

Essential reading

1) The working and management environment in contemporary Japan
Oguma Eiji, Nihon Shakai no Shikumi: Koyo, Kyoiku, Fukushi no Rekishi Shakaigaku (Regime of Japanese Society: Historical Sociology of Employment, Education, and Welfare), Kodansha, 2019. [Ingroductuion, Chapter 1, 2, Conclusion]

2) Changes in the Asian market and globalization
Oikawa Hiroshi, Asia kohatsu koku no kogyoka to kokusai keizai titujo no shodankai (Industrialization of Asian Least Developed Countries and the Stages of the International Economic Order, Sato Yukito ed., Catch-up saiko (Rethinking catch-up), Research Paper, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), 2012. (https://www.ide.go.jp/library/Japanese/Publish/Download/Report/2011/pdf/423_ch1.pdf )


The materials will be distributed via the Moodle platform. Bibliographical references on primary sources in Japanese and further secondary sources will be made available during class and in the slides.

Further reading
Berndt, Enno, J-Economy, j-Corporation and j-Power since 1990 : from mutual gain to neoliberal redistribution, Edizioni Ca' Foscari-Digital Publishing, 2018.
Ha-Joon Chang, “Kicking Away the Ladder: The “Real” History of Free Trade,” Foreign Policy In Focus (Silver City, NM: Interhemispheric Resource Center, December 2003). (https://fpif.org/kicking_away_the_ladder_the_real_history_of_free_trade/ )
Muller, Jerry Z., The Tyranny of Metrics, Princeton University Press, 2018.
Ong, Aihwa, Neoliberalism as exception: mutations in citizenship and sovereignty, Duke University Press, 2006.
Sugimoto Yoshio, An Introduction to Japanese Society [Third Edition], Cambridge University Press, 2010.

!!!!CAUTION!!!! COVID-19 EMERGENCY EXAMINATION METHOD
ALL LM6235 exam tests will be online in the Moodle of the course: https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=3630

The details
a short essay in Japanese or English (max 3000 words in Japanese, max 1500 words in English) focused on the analysis of the contemporary Japanese society chosen by the student. The exam assesses the student's ability to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the course and his communication skills and autonomy of judgment. To be delivered to Moodle by the day of the written exam in the appropriate COVID EMERGENCY EXAM section: https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=3630

NON ATTENDING: The exam program will be the same as the attending students.

Frontal lessons in Japanese and English.

Attendance and participation during classes will not be evaluated, but are nevertheless strongly encouraged.

English

See: "moodle" for slides of the lessons and further materials.

Office hour: Friday, from 3 p.m. (Palazzo Vendramin, sala B-ricevimento).

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development