Download or read book Japanese Corporate Transition in Time and Space written by T. Kurihara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnography of a Japanese white-collar workplace in Osaka carried out during the late 1990s. It explores the relevance of social models to the analysis of social relations and women's status in the workplace by examining concepts of time, ritual, and space via the theory of practice.