Transnational Corporate Elites in Japan: International Career Mobility in East and South Asia

IF 1.7 Q2 SOCIOLOGY Japanese Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-07-03 DOI:10.1111/ijjs.12084
Jaok Kwon, Markus Pohlmann, Jivanta Schöttli
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Although mainstream globalization literature has attempted to provide an empirical proof of the rise of transnational business elites using several indicators, it is still not clear how to pinpoint transnationality and to establish whether globalization has led to the erosion of nation-state boundaries through worldwide mobility and networks, as globalization theorists argue. Using empirical data on career paths and mobility over three decades in Japan – compared with other East Asia economies and India – we examine the shift in career mobility. First, we maintain that a comprehensive understanding of social, political and cultural dimensions need to be considered in a discussion of transnationality. Second, we suggest that the globalizing economy does not necessarily lead to the weakening of the nation-state territory and its institutions in all sociocultural and political dimensions. In particular, transnationality in career mobility in Asian economies is not greatly evident. We propose instead that a new career pattern, which we call brain circulation, highlighting the importance of international experience, has emerged.

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日本的跨国企业精英:东亚和南亚的国际职业流动
尽管主流全球化文献试图用几个指标来提供跨国商业精英崛起的实证证据,但仍不清楚如何确定跨国性,并确定全球化是否像全球化理论家所认为的那样,通过全球流动性和网络导致了民族国家边界的侵蚀。我们利用日本30年来职业道路和流动性的实证数据——与其他东亚经济体和印度进行比较——研究了职业流动性的转变。首先,我们认为,在讨论跨国问题时,需要考虑对社会、政治和文化层面的全面理解。其次,我们认为经济全球化并不一定会导致民族国家领土及其在所有社会文化和政治方面的机构的削弱。特别是,在亚洲经济体中,职业流动的跨国性不是很明显。相反,我们建议出现一种新的职业模式,我们称之为人才循环,强调国际经验的重要性。
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