Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy : Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9780415648585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

Janet Hunter; Cornelia Storz

Opis

Economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning Japanese institutional and technological development. The book draws conclusions as to how the process of change in these areas actually works in Japan.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Economic and Institutional Change in Japan  2. Technology and Change in Japan’s Modern Copper Mining Industry  3. Professionalism as Power: Tajiri Inajiro and the Modernisation of Meiji Finance  4. Investment, Adaptation and Innovation: Genesis and Growth of Beer Corporations in Prewar Japan  5. Managing Female Textile Workers: an Industry in Transition, 1945-1975  6. Japan’s Industrial Organisation in Motion: Keiretsu at the Turning Point  7. Global Finance, Democracy and the State in Japan  8. Changes and Crisis in the Japanese Banking Industry  9. International Mergers and Acquisitions with Japanese Participation: Two Cases from the Automotive Industry  10. Environmental Protection and the Impact of Institutional Change  11. Changes in Conducting Foresight in Japan