University Press of America
Pages: 220
Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7618-4988-9 • Paperback • May 2010 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-0-7618-4989-6 • eBook • May 2010 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Yukio Yotsumoto is a graduate of Soka University in Japan, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1989. He earned a master's degree in agricultural extension education from the University of Georgia in 1994 and a PhD in sociology from the University of Kentucky in 2002. Currently, Yotsumoto is an associate professor in Asia Pacific studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan.
Chapter 1 List of Tables
Chapter 2 List of Figures
Chapter 3 List of Charts
Chapter 4 Acknowledgments
Chapter 5 Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter 6 Chapter Two: Literature Review
Chapter 7 Chapter Three: Research Methods
Chapter 8 Chapter Four: Research Setting - a Community
Chapter 9 Chapter Five: Human Resource Management and Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 10 Chapter Six: Firm Size and Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 11 Chapter Seven: Civil Society in Japan and the United States
Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Learning about Corporate Giving
Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: Conclusion
Chapter 14 Appendix A: List of Japanese Companies in Kentucky
Chapter 15 References
Yukio Yotsumoto's work focuses on competing notions of corporate social responsibility in Japanese manufacturing firms in Kentucky....His book looks at the philanthropic attitudes and practices of three Japanese firms, and compares them with those of two American firms and one British firm in "Heartland," a community in northern Kentucky. Yotsumoto's work is based on interviews with company representatives and is supported with secondary sources....Readers will gain valuable insight into how three Japanese firms have adopted corporate social responsibility....Yotsumoto's book illustrates the vital role that American influence has played on the philanthropic practices taken by these Japanese firms.
— Journal of Asian Studies