03860nam 2200709 450 991046114130332120200520144314.01-5017-0085-51-5017-0086-310.7591/9781501700866(CKB)3710000000462294(EBL)3426009(SSID)ssj0001551009(PQKBManifestationID)16166802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001551009(PQKBWorkID)14811368(PQKB)11021283(MiAaPQ)EBC3426009(OCoLC)918941305(MdBmJHUP)muse46789(DE-B1597)478395(OCoLC)979905762(DE-B1597)9781501700866(Au-PeEL)EBL3426009(CaPaEBR)ebr11091017(CaONFJC)MIL823638(OCoLC)930706519(EXLCZ)99371000000046229420050603d2005 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrReprogramming Japan the high tech crisis under communitarian capitalism /Marie AnchordoguyIthaca, New York :Cornell University Press,2005.1 online resource (275 p.)Cornell studies in political economyDescription based upon print version of record.1-5017-0063-4 0-8014-4187-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.The dynamics of communitarian capitalism -- Norms and institutions -- Telephone titan -- Telecommunications : obsolete institutions -- Computers : cooperation or competition? -- Software : programmed for failure -- Semiconductors : from boom to bust -- Crisis in communitarian capitalism.How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990's? Marie Anchordoguy's book examines how the performance of these industries and the economy as a whole are affected by the socially embedded nature of Japan's capitalist system, which she calls "communitarian capitalism."Reprogramming Japan shows how the institutions and policies that emerged during and after World War II to maintain communitarian norms, such as the lifetime employment system, seniority-based wages, enterprise unions, a centralized credit-based financial system, industrial groups, the main bank corporate governance system, and industrial policies, helped promote high tech industries. When conditions shifted in the 1980's and 1990's, these institutions and policies did not suit the new environment, in which technological change was rapid and unpredictable and foreign products could no longer be legally reverse-engineered.Despite economic stagnation, leaders were slow to change because of deep social commitments. Once the crisis became acute, the bureaucracy and corporate leaders started to contest and modify key institutions and practices. Rather than change at different times according to their specific economic interests, Japanese firms and the state have made similar slow, incremental changes.Cornell studies in political economy.High technology industriesJapanCapitalismSocial aspectsJapanIndustrial policyJapanJapanEconomic conditions1989-Electronic books.High technology industriesCapitalismSocial aspectsIndustrial policy330.952/05Anchordoguy Marie1037329MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461141303321Reprogramming Japan2458239UNINA