The Formation and Establishment of the Industrial Relations of the Postwar Corporate System in the United States: The Significance of Institutional and Organizational Transfiguration During WWII

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  • アメリカの戦後企業体制における労使関係の形成
  • アメリカの戦後企業体制における労使関係の形成 : 第二次大戦期の戦時労使関係による制度・組織転換を中心として
  • アメリカ ノ センゴ キギョウ タイセイ ニ オケル ロウシ カンケイ ノ ケイセイ : ダイニジ タイセンキ ノ センジ ロウシ カンケイ ニ ヨル セイド ・ ソシキ テンカン オ チュウシン ト シテ
  • ―第二次大戦期の戦時労使関係による制度・組織転換を中心として―

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<p>The postwar American economy in the 1950s and 1960s experienced a historic period of “sustainable growth”. The U.S. “postwar corporate system” of big business in mass-production and the related industries constituted the core of the economy. It was characterized by three main pillars: an American-style mass production system, a postwar “traditional-type” labor relations established to suit it, and a “matured oligopoly system” accompanied by a “bureaucratic” management organization. This “postwar corporate system” was a product of long-term historical developments, but most directly, the institutional and organizational transformation brought about by the wartime industrial mobilization of the World War II war economy established its basic structure with certain adaptations in the process of reconversion in the early postwar years. This paper focuses on the major aspects of the significant institutional and organizational transfiguration of the U.S. industrial relations to undergird the U.S. “postwar corporate system”, which brought about by the industrial mobilization system and war economy during World War II across all the three layers of “long-term strategy/policy formation”, “collective bargaining/personnel policy”, and “workplace/individual/organizational relations” on the basis of the historic transformation in labor relations in the 1930s.</p>

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  • Journal of Innovation Management

    Journal of Innovation Management 20 (0), 21-46, 2023-03-31

    The Research Institute for Innovation Management of Hosei University

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