Preface Chapter 1 Corporations for Corporate Employees 1 Independence from Shareholder Control 2 Qualitative Changes in Workers 3 Corporate Employees and the Corporation Chapter 2 Comparison with Foreign Corporations Part I: Comparison with Capitalist Corporations 1 Management Policies in American Companies 2 Restrictions on Management 3 'Freedom of Management' in Corporations in Japan 4 Consolidation of Corporate Objectives Among Employees 5 Comparison of 'Management Participation' Part II: Comparison with Socialist Corporations 1 Corporate System in the PRC 2 Problems in the Chinese Corporate Structure 3 The Necessity for Uniting Management and Labor 4 The Corporate System in Yugoslavia 5 The Actual Status of Self-Management 6 Problems with the Self-Management System Chapter 3 The Progressive Nature of the Japanese Corporate System 1 Changes in Management Structure 2 Labor 3 Job Rotation Inside the Company 4 The Organizational Structure 5 The Humanization of Labor Chapter 4 Kigyoism as an Economic System 1 On Japan's 'Uniqueness' 2 The Core of the Japanese Corporate System 3 The Autonomy of Management 4 From Authority to Responsibility 5 Impediments to the Development of Kigyoism Chapter 5 Kigyoism as a Social System 1 Features of Japan's Social Structure 2 The Company as a Source of Social Integration 3 Equality within a Kigyoistic Society 4 Freedom in a Kigyoistic Society 5 A System for the Masses

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