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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449946203321

Autore

Morikawa Hidemasa <1930->

Titolo

A history of top management in Japan : managerial enterprises and family enterprises / / Hidemasa Morikawa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-280-47279-0

0-19-530225-7

0-19-535120-7

1-60256-395-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

338.0952

Soggetti

Industrial management - Japan - History

Executives - Japan - History

Family-owned business enterprises - Japan - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Translator's Note; ONE: Theoretical Problems Regarding Managerial Enterprises and Family Enterprises; TWO: The Transition from a Family Enterprise to a Managerial Enterprise; THREE: Development of Managerial Enterprises in Japan; FOUR: Family Enterprises in Japan Today; FIVE: The Conquest of the Managerial Enterprise; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848. Matthew Levinger challenges the conventional notion that Prussia lagged behind Western Europe in its political development, demonstrating that Prussian leaders embraced a distinctive program of political modernization in response to their country's defeat by Napoleon in 1806-1807. Building on the eighteenth-century tradition of enlightened absolutism, Prussian leaders attempted to unite a rationalized monarchy with a politically active ""nation,"" thu