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Charles Thomas Tackney

Charles T. tackney
Associate professor , Ph.D.
Charles Thomas Tackney

Department of Intercultural Communication and Management

Porcelænshaven 18
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Denmark
Tel.: +45 3815 3188
Cell phone: +45 2465 4801
Fax:+45-3815-3840
E-mail: ct.ikl@cbs.dk



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Affiliated with Centre for Business and Development Studies

My academic specialization is the field of comparative / international industrial relations. My doctoral dissertation concerned Japanese employment relations and the institutionalized practice of the “lifetime employment system.” Further reflection and research on this topic has led to the development of comparative employment models of the modern enterprise. These are derived from the initial doctoral field work in Japan and are largely abstracted from the jurisprudence of the father of Japanese labor law: Izutaro Suehiro. As benchmarks of industrial democracy, these models and their underlying norms offer empirical means to propose or evaluate efforts to export Japanese management practices, such as lean production regimes, to other national settings.
Thanks to the six years I served as the as the Asian Studies Program Director and Chair of the Study Board at Copenhagen Business School (2000-2006), I have also developed a research stream on the topic of tertiary education in the Scandinavian context. This includes research papers that examine the tacit skilling features that are part of the ‘hidden curriculum’ of our Business School’s research-oriented participatory tertiary educational model (the “SPRØK” model, in Danish abbreviation). Aspects of this research also include Asian language acquisition, courses in business, economics, sociology and interdisciplinary research methods, their overall integration, and the unusual ways student performance is evaluated – such as the “Synopsis-based oral examination”.

Primary research areas

  • Industrial and employment relations
  • Japanese management
  • Comparative labour market law
  • Interdisciplinary research methods
  • Integration of regional/local tiertary education practices and internationalized student populations


Selected publications

  1. Tackney, C.T. (June 2009). Yes, the U.S. Auto Industry Can—If the U.S. Congress and Obama Administration Learn a Lesson from Japan. Employee Responsibility and Rights Journal . 21:2, 163-164.
  2. Tackney, C.T. (April 2009). “Ye shall know them by their fruits”: American Workplace Evangelization and the Continental European Jurisprudence Origins of Japanese Management Practice. Journal of Management History , 15:2, 178-197.
  3. Tackney, Charles T. (2002). Management Participation (Keiei Sanka) in Japan and the Asian Crisis. In Luigi Tomba (Ed.) East Asian Capitalism: Conflicts, Growth, and Crisis (pp. 347-732). Milano: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.
  4. Tackney, Charles T. (2001). The Modes of Social Relation in Japanese Management Practice. Chapter 16 in Cary L. Cooper, Sue Cartwright, and P. Christopher Earley (Eds.). The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate (pp. 377- 390). London: John Wiley & Sons.
  5. Tackney, Charles T. (2000). Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in Japan. Chapter 4 in Greg J. Bamber, Funkoo Park, Changwon Lee, Peter K. Ross, and Kaye Broadbent (Eds.), Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific (pp.64-79). Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
  6. Tackney, Charles T. (December 1998). Review of Ikuo Kume’s Disparaged Success: labor politics in postwar Japan. Ithaca: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Review for the Japan Labor Research Journal, 40: 12. 67-69. (in Japanese).
  7. Tackney, Charles T. (July 15-17 1998). The Legal Ecology of “Japanese management” and its Transnational Diffusion. Proceedings of the International Employment Relations Association 6th Annual Conference, “Globalization and regionalism: Employment Relations Issues in the Asia-Pacific,” The University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 335-341
  8. Kettler, David and Charles T. Tackney (1997). Light from a Dead Sun: Japan’s Lifetime Employment System and Weimar Labor Law. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 19: 1.
  9. Tackney, Charles T. (December 1995). Institutionalization of the Japanese Lifetime Employment System: a Case Study of Changing Employment Practices in a Machine-tools Factory. Ph.D. dissertation, Industrial Relations Research Institute, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Ann Arbor: UMI Number: 9608158. UMI Dissertation Information Service.
Full publication list (pdf)



Last updated by Charles Tackney 07/04/2010