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CULTURE, CONTROL, AND COMMITMENT

A Study of Work Organization and Work Attitudes in the United States and Japan

JAMES R. LINCOLN
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

and

ARNE L. KALLEBERG
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

With a New Prologue by the Authors

From the reviews . . .

“[A] splendid exemplar of the hypothesis-testing style of work. . . . [A]ll students of comparative industrial organization are indebted to Lincoln and Kalleberg for this major contribution to their field. It will become an essential starting point for further debate.”
Mark Granovetter in Contemporary Sociology

“When so much of what is written about Japan is based on hearsay, it is refreshing to come across a work that is based on hard data. . . . [A]s a source book about attitudes and organizations in the country which is providing the world with most of its management models today, it has no equal.”
Nick Oliver in Journal of Occupational Psychology

“The most authoritative and comprehensive treatment to date of comparative research into commitment in Japan and the USA. . . . [A] solid scholarly work worthy of serious attention from managers, industrial sociologists, psychologists and organisation theorists.”
Mari Sako in British Journal of Industrial Relations

“[R]apidly becoming a classic.”
Washington Post

A volume in the series Foundations of Sociology

ISBN 978-0-9719587-2-2/paperback/314 pp./illus./February 2003/$42.50