"Glo-cal" Ba Manegement

MURAYAMA, Motofusa

International Management is based upon the dualistic monism conceptof ba(ば,場)consisting of“surface culture"and“root culture."Surface culture is simply regarded as management styles or behavioralpatterns in management. Root culture is generally classified asmanagement values or management thoughts in terms of corporatephilosophies.The style-value linkage via dualistic monism is quite similar to thereality that the body and mind are one. Also, this could be identifiedas the total integrated assets of both tangible and intangible assets incompanies. Whenever a smart leader observes other's performances,he will try to read the other's mindset or motivation leading to the relatedperformances. In other words, the simplest truth is that anyCore Culture cannot be separated from its Core Culture style and itsCore Culture value, like the inseparable relations between visible behaviorsand invisible thoughts.International management is now motivated by“a new place-making"(or ba-making)perception with differentiated management paradigmsin these global business opportunities. This encourages us to rethinkthe concept of“place-making"as we all do not share the sameconcepts of“a new place-making"(or ba-making)in these internationalstrategic alliances such as a joint venture between the West(e.g., America)and East(e.g., China).‘Ba'is a Japaniese word that implies both visible and invisible managementidentities in terms of an integrated world of both physicaland mental site and place. This concept relates to enhancement ofmulticultural understanding and mutual interactions via related people'scommitments in the organizations including the micro and macroplaces or integrating the spoken and unspoken worlds such as explicitknowledge and tacit knowledge.For example, the following photos of the stones in the Japanese gardenin Seattle in Diagram 1-1 are buried two-thirds under the land

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千葉大学経済学会

Economics Association for Chiba University

紀要論文

09127216

AN10005358

千葉大学経済研究 = Economic journal of Chiba University

29

4

207

239

2015-03-11

publisher

経済研究 (ONLINE ISSN 2436-8873)