Reforming Japanese-style management: destabilizing hegemony through discourse intervention

Ideology, Hegemony, dIscourse: A crItIcAl revIew

The Power of Discourse and the Discourse of Power: Pursuing Peace through Discourse Intervention

Western-liberal discourses of power and the social practices associated with them are proving inadequate to the task of creating a peaceful, just, and sustainable social order. Having recognized this, progressive scholars and social reformers have begun articulating alternative discourses of power, along with alternative models of social practice. Together, these efforts can be interpreted as a...

Assessing Knowledge Management Services through Discourse Analysis

This paper presents a case study in which discourse analysis was used to suggest process improvements in two knowledge management services (KMS). It employs linguistic analysis as the means for assessing the degree to which each KMS is aligned to the users’ needs. Areas requiring improvement are identified linguistically based on the differences between users’ experience of the services and the...

Japanese-Style Human Resource Management and Its Historical Origins

This paper examines the economic rationality of Japanese-style human resource management (HRM) and provides an overview of how and in what historical context Japanese firms formed such a model, which had no precedent in the Western world. The core of the Japanese model is an employer’s promise to provide human capital investment and employment security to regular employees in exchange for their...

Centering in Japanese Discourse

In this paper we propose a computational treatment of the resolution of zero pronouns in Japanese discourse, using an adaptation of the centering algorithm. We are able to factor language-specific dependencies into one parameter of the centering algorithm. Previous analyses have stipulated that a zero pronoun and its cospecifier must share a grammatical function property such as Subject or NonS...