Abstract
In this chapter I examine a set of Japanese corporate activities that Allison (1994: 100) terms “not-precisely-work.�? Specifically, I explore the place of three important activities - dining, drinking, and golf - in the lives of Japanese business expatriates in Singapore. Whereas in my other contribution to this volume I focused on the discursive and cognitive dimensions of the expatriate experience, here I direct my attention to the behavioral level. Dining, drinking and golfing belong to what I have called the “interstices�? (Ben-Ari, 1990; 1994) of Japan’s organizational life: i.e. to the narrow time-junctures in between “regular�? periods of work activity. But they are not residual to, somehow unimportant aspects of, the dynamics of these enterprises. Rather, as a very long line of scholars have shown!, they are central to such matters as the creation of work-group solidarity, the actualization of managerial control, or the resolution of conflict.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Japan in Singapore |
Subtitle of host publication | Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 150-174 |
Number of pages | 25 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781136116100 |
ISBN (Print) | 0700712453, 9780700712458 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2013 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2000 Eyal Ben-Ari and John Clammer.