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Some of Japan’s business entities are the world’s oldest. Kongo-gumi, a construction group associated with the Shitenno-ji Buddhist temple in Osaka, was established in 578. Ikenobo-kado-kai was established in 587 to spread the art of flower arrangement. Since that time, the spiritual tradition of Kongo-gumi has been transmitted by 39 masters, and the tradition of Ikenobo-kado-kai has been transmitted by 45 masters (Yokozawa 2012), and skills have been transmitted via master–disciple relationships as well.
This chapter was submitted as the keynote speech at the HIDA/Asian Employer’s Organizations Joint Study Workshop, In Search of a Global Standard for Better IR Communication, 3–5 December 2013, organised by the Overseas Human Resources and Industry Development Association (HIDA), Jakarta, Indonesia. It was a reference paper at the joint conference of ‘Practical Wisdom for Management from the Japanese Spiritual and Philosophical Traditions’, organised by the Academy of Business in Society, Yale University and Soka University, Tokyo, 11–12 May 2013.
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Kuriyama, N. (2017). Practical Wisdom of Labour–Management Relations through the Productivity Movement in Japan. In: Japanese Human Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43053-9_2
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