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Abstract
Drawing on the author’s professional experience working inside a Japanese company, the essay examines the cultural construction
of managerial responsibility in Japan, and explores the tensions between Eastern and Western notions of responsibility in
the Japanese workplace. The author proposes two idioms that shape local notions of responsibility as “webs of engagement.”
Based on the Japanese concepts ba and kokoro, these idioms suggest significant departures from Western notions of workplace corporate social responsibility. Since much
of the literature on CSR focuses on Western countries and examines the more public, corporate aspects of CSR, the article
is meant as a contribution to a better understanding of managerial responsibility in an Asian context, and more generally
of the relationship between culture and responsibility. Theoretically, the article draws on works in interpretive and symbolic
anthropology, anthropological writing on Japanese culture and society, and cross-cultural CSR research.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Pages 1-15
- DOI 10.1007/s10551-011-1177-2
- Authors
- Maya Morioka Todeschini, EM Lyon Business School, Paris, France
- Journal Journal of Business Ethics
- Online ISSN 1573-0697
- Print ISSN 0167-4544