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Journal Name: Annals of Business Administrative Science: Vol.1, No.1 April 2002
Online ISSN: 1347-4456, Print ISSN: 1347-4464
Contents:
The degree of self-determination and job satisfaction of white-collar workers in Japanese firms
TAKAHASHI, N.
Abstract:
In most Japanese major companies, white-collar workers are engaged in lifetime employment system and seniority-based pay system. Since noncontingent money payments do not decrease intrinsic motivation, those companies provide a favorable and unique opportunity to observe and test intrinsic motivation. The present study tests a version of E. L. Deci's( 1975) hypothesis that, if a person's feeling of self-determination is enhanced, his or her job satisfaction will increase. With a measure of self-determination which was first developed, the hypothesis was is supported by data from 10,916 white-collar workers in 385 organizational units of 46 Japanese major companies: There is a strong linear relationship between the job satisfaction and the degree of self-determination.
Keywords: self-determination, job satisfaction, white-collar workers
Organization strategy of established firms to adapt to a change in product architecture: Dynamic management of sub units inside an organization.
WI, J. H.
Abstract:
This paper analyzes the organization strategy of an established firm when a change in product architecture occurs on a previous product. For the purpose, the paper analyzes an organizational design and management of an established firm in overcoming the restrictions from past resources and in creating heterogeneous resources required in new product architecture.
Keywords: established firm, change in product architecture, management of sub units
Learning from a strategically allied firm: Incorporating a teaching perspective
HELLER, D. A.
Abstract:
In order to more accurately represent the inter-firm learning process in a strategic alliance, this paper argues that, under certain conditions, it is necessary to incorporate a teaching perspective. A framework that does so is proposed and tested by a case-study analysis. Case findings largely support the framework.
Keywords: strategic alliance, inter-firm learning, competence acquisition
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