01093nam0 22002893i 450 USM141988820231121125916.0076196505Xpbk.20160203d2003 ||||0itac50 baenggbz01i xxxe z01nDoing research in cultural studiesan introduction to classical and new methodological approachesPaula SaukkoLondon [etc.]Sage2003IX, 219 p.24 cm.Introducing qualitative methods001UMC00931632001 Introducing qualitative methodsSaukko, PaulaUSMV6670280701124414ITIT-0120160203IT-FR0017 Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio ApreaFR0017 USM1419888Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio Aprea 52CIS 7/116 52VM 0000564475 VM barcode:00055669. - Inventario:70 SUSVMA 2005061520121204 52Doing research in cultural studies3642726UNICAS03523nam 22007334a 450 991095748790332120200520144314.09786612537417978128253741512825374159780226532721022653272010.7208/9780226532721(CKB)2520000000006479(EBL)496607(OCoLC)593359763(SSID)ssj0000337540(PQKBManifestationID)11223807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337540(PQKBWorkID)10308735(PQKB)10217924(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115728(MiAaPQ)EBC496607(DE-B1597)524972(OCoLC)1135591468(DE-B1597)9780226532721(Au-PeEL)EBL496607(CaPaEBR)ebr10372071(CaONFJC)MIL253741(Perlego)1852001(EXLCZ)99252000000000647920051020d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe fable of the keiretsu urban legends of the Japanese economy /Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20061 online resource (197 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226532707 0226532704 Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index.Introduction -- The fable of the keiretsu -- And of the zaibatsu -- The myth of the main bank -- And of outside directors -- Legends of government guidance -- The cost of kipling.For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In The Fable of the Keiretsu, Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend. In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the keiretsu was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of keiretsu, the authors debunk several related "facts" as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a "main bank," that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business.Conglomerate corporationsJapanCorporationsFinanceJapanEconomic policy1989-JapanEconomic conditions1989-Conglomerate corporationsCorporationsFinance.338.8/70952QP 450rvkMiwa Yoshiro1948-1805357Ramseyer J. Mark1954-254543MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957487903321The fable of the keiretsu4353904UNINA