<i>The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest</i>. G. A. Loud

Ramseyer, Valerie

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“…This practice has led to the confusion of motive with result in social interaction and, in the study of group decision making, a confusion of rulefollowing behavior with choice behavior. Consequently, those few students of Japanese decision making who demur to the logic of the orthodox view (e.g., Befu 1966Befu , 1971Ramseyer 1969;Silberman 1967Silberman , 1973Cole 1976) either deemphasize the fundamentally consensual orientation of participants in Japanese corporate groups or insist on the historical reality of other than unanimous results in decision making within the Japanese tradition, or both, without yet providing a more coherent theory of Japanese decision making.…”

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Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan

2020

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Smith for reading various versions of this study and for their detailed substantive and stylistic comments and criticisms. If I had listened more and argued less, perhaps they could be made to bear some of the burden for the shortcomings that remain in this book. But I did not, and so its flaws, at least, are all mine.More than any other single person, I thank my wife, Betsy, who was willing to go and willing to stay three years in rural Japan. Without her companionship and constant encouragement both in word and by example, I could not have persevered. Ishi no ue ni mo son nen.As for the implications of this research for the overall study of Japanese society and culture, we might simply alter a well-known American watchword to read, "The price of membership in Japanese corporate groups is eternal vigilance." The commitment of resources to the productive exchange relation prevents all but the few wealthiest members, or those most willing to risk defecting, from exploiting opportunities outside their ongoing exchange relation. At the same time, this commitment, itself a product of the operation of mutual investment in productive exchange, demands the utmost attention to the public and private affairs of fellow members to insure that that commitment is not betrayed. Atsumi (1975; 7) suggests that the belief that social relations in other spheres of exchange and organizations in Japan are modeled on patterns of interaction found in rural society is widespread. The present study suggests that this 6. Productive exchange transactions in the corporate group are always accomplished according to the same bifurcate formula:Phase 1: All members with any potential to benefit from a transaction assume a share in the capital costs proportionate to their share in the group's total resource pool. participants to the decision-making process (ranging from adversarial to consensual) are independent of one another and emergent properties of the exchange relation obtaining among participants. The specific character of any exchange relationship, in turn, hinges on how effectively and in what manner the integrity of each transaction within it is maintained as a function of transaction itself, not on the characters of the participants.

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“… 2. Norman Eicher Ramseyer, “A History of Lordsburg California” (Master’s thesis, University of Southern California, 1937), 14, 47-48, 50-51. …”

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New Life for a Legacy: The La Verne Historical Society and Inman Conety’s 1938 International Truck

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2023

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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In La Verne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, residents have partnered with the town’s historical society to rebuild an important item from that organization’s collections: a 1938 International truck. Driven for decades by longtime La Verne resident Inman Conety, this automobile has logged over 900,000 miles since the early-twentieth century. As an expression of the collective identity of La Verne, the International has served the community as a recycling vehicle and supported civic pride with appearances in Fourth of July parades. The La Verne Historical Society recently launched a campaign to fund reconstruction of the vehicle, with the goal of returning it to the Fourth of July parade and affirming the truck’s status as a historical artifact with deep ties to the community. The 1938 International expresses the centrality of community support to the La Verne Historical Society’s collections.

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The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest. G. A. Loud

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