Harumi befu biography of albert

Contents

PART I Introduction 1

1 The global context of Japan outside Japan 3

HARUMI BEFU

• Human dispersal 5
• Nonpermanent sojourners 5
• Permanent sojourners 6
• Exploiting the cultural capital 9
• Organizational transplant 10
• Cultural diffusion 13
• Imagining of Japan 15
• Interrelationships among the four categories 18
• Conclusion: center-periphery 19

PART II Human dispersal 23

2 Objects, city, and wandering: the invisibility of the Japanese in France 25

KAZUHIKO YATABE

• A cultural migration 29
• An individual and temporary migration 30

PART III Organizational transplant 41

3 Positioning "globalization" at overseas subsidiaries of Japanese multinational corporations 43

MITCHELL W.

SEDGWICK

• Coping with complexity on a large scale 43
• The political economy of Japan's globalization 44
• The "globalization" of Japanese managers: from the macro to the micro 45
• Positioning globalization 48
• Conclusion 49

4 Japan