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Labour management during recessions: Japanese manufacturing enterprises in the 1990s
Author(s) -
Benson John
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2338.00092
Subject(s) - recession , context (archaeology) , labour economics , economics , business , manufacturing sector , macroeconomics , geography , archaeology
In the first half of the 1990s Japan experienced a prolonged recession. How have Japanese firms reacted to the changed economic context? Using identical surveys administered in 1991 and 1995 this article examines changes in labour management and strategy and concludes, despite some significant modifications, that the basic configuration of Japanese labour management has remained intact.