A Comparison of Technical Document Management between Japan and Western World

Kunio Ohno

Western document management is characterized by the concept of the filing system, which supports document classification and access control, where each document can be related to an individual who is responsible for the description of the document. Compared with that, Japanese document management is rather poor which might be just supported by binders or binding strings in each group of the organization, and causes organization based immoral concealment and alteration of document. The superiority of the Western document management has been brought by its research history of the universal truth through the discussion of dialectical mutual criticism based on the document. Through the consideration, an idea has been proposed that the document management and control can be modeled by feedback systems, and Western document management can be modeled by stable negative feedback system, while Japanese document management can be modeled by unstable positive feedback system. To overcome the unstable document management, professional people education and training should be expected.

A Comparison of Technical Document Management between Japan and Western World

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