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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):181-183; doi:10.1093/es/khj014
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.

Sanford Jacoby. The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xi + 216 pp. ISBN 0-691-11999-6, $35.00.

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This is a very interesting examination of the fate of human relations (HR) departments within Japanese and U.S. corporations. Its focus is on the contemporary period and on the pressures for change facing both the U.S. and Japanese systems. But it also spends some helpful time situating the current processes of change in historical context. In general, Jacoby is very insistent that the changes that occur within the corporation regarding the relative power and function of HR cannot be understood without first understanding the position of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Gary Herrigel

University of Chicago


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