Family-Run Universities in Japan
Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 April 2023
- ISBN 9780198879756
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x152x15 mm
- Weight 418 g
- Language English 293
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Short description:
In Japan, almost 80% of university students attend private institutions, up to 40% of which are family businesses. This book offers a detailed historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of this important category of private university.
MoreLong description:
Globally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall expenditure, almost 80% of all university students attend private institutions. According to some estimates up to 40% of these institutions are family businesses in the sense that members of a single family have substantive ownership or control over their operation.
This updated edition of Family-Run Universities in Japan offers a detailed historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of this important, but largely under-studied, category of private universities as family business. It examines how such universities in Japan have negotiated a period of major demographic decline since the 1990s: their experiments in restructuring and reform, the diverse experiences of those who worked and studied within them and, above all, their unexpected resilience. It argues that this resilience derives from a number of 'inbuilt' strengths of family business which are often overlooked in conventional descriptions of higher education systems and in predictions regarding the capacity of universities to cope with dramatic changes in their operating environment. This book offers a new perspective on recent changes in the Japanese higher education sector and contributes to an emerging literature on private higher education and family business across the world.
The authors give a thorough historical overview of Japanese private university management and use statistical data to get to the heart of the problem.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The 'Puzzle' of Japan's Resilient Private Universities
The Predicted Implosion of Japan's Private Higher Education System
Japanese Private Universities in Comparative Perspective
A University under Fire: A Short Ethnography of MGU 1992-2007
MGU 2008-2018: The Law School and Other Reforms
The Resilience of Japan's Private Universities
Private Universities as Family Business
