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Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy : past and present / edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 6.
- Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Japan--Economic conditions--1945-.
- Japan.
- Japan--Economic policy--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Taylor & Francis 2006
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future. In this book, leading economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as t
- Contents:
- Introduction : economic and institutional change in Japan / Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz
- Technology and change in Japan's modern copper mining industry / Patricia Sippel
- Professionalism as power : Tajiri Inajirō and the modernisation of Meiji finance / Katalin Ferber
- Investment, importation and innovation : genesis and growth of beer corporations in prewar Japan / Harald Fuess
- Managing female textile workers : an industry in transition, 1945-1975 / Helen Macnaughtan
- Japan's inter-firm relations : on the way towards a market-oriented structure? / Andreas Moerke
- Global finance, democracy, and the state in Japan / Takaaki Suzuki
- Changes and crisis in the Japanese banking industry / Mariusz Krawczyk
- International mergers and acquisitions with Japanese participation : two cases from the automotive industry / Sigrun Caspary
- Environmental protection and the impact of institutional change / Ilona Koester
- Changes in conducting foresight in Japan / Kerstin Cuhls.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610478262
- 9781134206810
- 113420681X
- 9781134206827
- 1134206828
- 9781280478260
- 1280478268
- 9780203028018
- 0203028015
- OCLC:
- 475976763
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