Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development

ISBN-13: 9780415391801 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 272 str.

Tetsuji Okazaki

Opis

In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan. Production organizations are taken to mean the long-term relationships which economic agents create for production, based on employment contracts or long-term transactions. This includes hierarchical organizations such as factories and corporations, but also flexible arangements such as subcontracting. Modern Japanese economic development is characterized by the co-evolution of these two types of production organizations, while American economic development in the modern period is characterized by the development of a mass production system based on large hierarchical organizations. The question is raised as to why and how a certain type of organization proliferated in a certain industry in a certain period, and what the role of that organization was in coordinating production and giving incentives to the economic agents involved. The result is a comparative institutional analysis of the organizational foundations of Japanese economic development in the modern period.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: History of Production Organizations  2. The Rise of the Power-Loom Factory in the Traditional Silk-Weaving District: Change in Demand and Labor Market  3. The Registration System and the Grade Wage: From Cooperation to a Market for Human Capital?: A Lesson from the Japanese Silk Reeling Industry  4. Personnel Management and the Formation of Modern Business Organisation: The Railway Industry in Japan before the First World War  5. Determinants and Effects of Employing Professional Corporate Executives: A Case of Cotton Spinning Companies in Pre-War Japan  6. Flexibility and Diversity: The Putting-Out System in the Silk Fabric Industry of Kiryu, Japan  7. The Development of Dispersed Production Organization in the Interwar Period: The Case of the Japanese Toy Industry  8. The Evolution of Organizational Structure of the Modern Machinery Industry in Japan

O autorze

Tetsuji Okazaki is at the University of Tokyo