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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348237003321

Titolo

Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy : past and present / / edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-20681-X

1-134-20682-8

1-280-47826-8

9786610478262

0-203-02801-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; ; 6

Classificazione

83.62

Altri autori (Persone)

HunterJanet

StorzCornelia

Disciplina

330.95204

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Japan Economic conditions 1945-

Japan Economic policy 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 InajiroĢ„ 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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