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"Firm Organization and Career Patterns in Prewar Japan: A Case of Mitsubishi & Co." (in Japanese)

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  • Hisayuki Oshima

    (Faculty of Business Management, Department of Business Manegement, Takachiho University)

  • Tetsuji Okazaki

    (Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo)

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This paper investigates the career patterns of employees of Mitsubishi & Co. in the prewar period, using the database of Mitsubishi's employees. We focus on the careers of the 146 persons who newly joined the company in 1921. It is found that the company was open to the external labor market. That is, while three persons joined the company as managers, 63 of the 146 persons (58%) exited the company by 1924. On the other hand, eight persons were promoted to managers from ordinary employees, which suggests that the internal labor market was emerging although it was still small. Most of those promoted persons started their careers at overseas branches, and each of them was specialized in a certain category of commodities. This feature of caree patterns may reflect the characteristic of Mitsubishi's organizational structure.

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  • Hisayuki Oshima & Tetsuji Okazaki, 2017. ""Firm Organization and Career Patterns in Prewar Japan: A Case of Mitsubishi & Co." (in Japanese)," CIRJE J-Series CIRJE-J-293, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
    • Handle: RePEc:tky:jseres:2017cj293
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