The history of management cannot be understood adequately by just using legal knowledge to explain the causes from the results.
Students can only learn why a choice was made and what effect it had on the result by putting themselves in the shoes of actors in each situation, and tracing the process by which the decision was made while they predicted future objective conditions. The fundamental factor that guides these choices is "philosophy".
The instructor in this course covers a variety of phases in management history, and students learn about the role of decision making from the philosophy of how it affected history and was constrained by history.
Students will deepen their understanding by reading discussion papers and debating designated issues.
Students will learn how to study management from history.
history, philosophy, decision making
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Students will read lecture materials and discuss issues.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | The point of view of the history of management | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 2 | The emergence of large companies in Japan | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 3 | The formation of engineers - social group specific to Japan - | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 4 | Modern industrial development and small and medium-sized enterprises | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 5 | Enterprise and association | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 6 | Japan's corporate system and the wartime economy | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 7 | Employees and large companies | Shown in the document for discussion |
Class 8 | Japan's large companies: isomorphism in strategy | Shown in the document for discussion |
Document for discussion would be delivered in the previous lecture.
"MBA no tame no Nihon keieishi" by Yoshitaka Suzuki (Yuhikaku 2007) in Japanese
"Social Enterprise ron" by Yoshitaka Suzuki (Yuhikaku 2014) in Japanese
Report: Write after reading reference literature.
Evaluation is based on the report, but also draws on the in-class Q&A and debate.
This is the prerequisite course to take "History and Philosophy of Management II".
Students are required to have the ability to read articles in Japanese.