Synopses & Reviews
Food safety concerns have boosted the Asian demand for quality food in general and products of geographical indications in particular. This book shows how Asian countries are empowering regions and enterprises involved in differentiation strategies, and the effects that this regulation can have.
Synopsis
Authority and Autonomy invites you on an ethnographic journey into the heart of creative knowledge work. Based on detailed and vivid examples, it analyzes the concept of work entertained by employees in these companies. It shows the existence of fairly contradictory ideals: classical bureaucratic and professional virtues, and ideals drawing on late modern values about selfrealization, authenticity and limitless exploration. The same set of contradictory values is carried into the hierarchical dynamics, as managers and employees make unpredictable shifts in their expectations towards one another. Without signaling or even reflecting on the shifts, managers and employees jump back and forth between norms about authority, ordergiving and hierarchy on the one hand, and autonomy, dialogue and selfdirection on the other. These unpredictable shifts give rise to volatile conflicts, but also to intense mutual fantasies and passion. The author argues that this paradoxical environment in knowledge organizations has become more or less inevitable due to the highvelocity, growthdriven market. Furthermore, she highlights both the risks and gains associated with paradoxical environments and how it is important that we look at both.
About the Author
LOUIS AUGUSTIN-JEAN is an associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he teaches Development of Asian Economies, and Economic Sociology. He has been living in Asia for fifteen years and his research focuses primarily on China's rural development and food systems. He co-edited Hong Kong: Economie, société, culture (2007).
HéLÈNE ILBERT works in the field of global international economics at the CIHEAM-IAM-M. As a research director she monitors programs on geographical indications. She is a member of the University of Montpellier, France, (UMR Moisa) and has been awarded prizes by the National Scientific Research Institute and the Commission of the European Communities.
NEANTRO SAAVEDRA-RIVANO is a professor Emeritus of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and Deputy Director of its Program in Economic and Public Policy Management. He holds PhDs in Economics from Columbia University and in Mathematics from the University of Paris. His research interests include Human Capital Financing and Economic Development, Regional Economic Integration in East Asia and the Americas, and International Trade.
Table of Contents
The Globalization of Geographical Indications: The Challenge for Asia
PART I: THE THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PRODUCTS OF ORIGINS
Geographical Indications and International Trade
Are Foodmarkets Special Markets?
Standardization vs. Products of Origins
The Multidimensional Definition of Quality
Products with Denominations of Origin and Intellectual Property Rights: The International Bargaining Process
The Concept of Terrior as the Basis of Corporate Strategy in Agribusiness
PART II: ASIAN CHALLENGES
From Products of Origin to Geographical Indications in Japan
The Development of Geographical Standards for Sake in Japan
An Export Niche in the Philippines
Geographical Indication and Industrial Organization of Food Market in China
Terrior and Green Tea in China