LEADER 03446nam 22006854a 450 001 9910455607803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53741-5 010 $a9786612537417 010 $a0-226-53272-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226532721 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006479 035 $a(EBL)496607 035 $a(OCoLC)593359763 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337540 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223807 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337540 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308735 035 $a(PQKB)10217924 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115728 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC496607 035 $a(DE-B1597)524972 035 $a(OCoLC)1135591468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226532721 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL496607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10372071 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253741 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006479 100 $a20051020d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe fable of the keiretsu$b[electronic resource] $eurban legends of the Japanese economy /$fYoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-53270-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aFor 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. 606 $aConglomerate corporations$zJapan 606 $aCorporations$xFinance 607 $aJapan$xEconomic policy$y1989- 607 $aJapan$xEconomic conditions$y1989- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConglomerate corporations 615 0$aCorporations$xFinance. 676 $a338.8/70952 686 $aQP 450$2rvk 700 $aMiwa$b Yoshiro?$f1948-$0973855 701 $aRamseyer$b J. Mark$f1954-$0254543 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455607803321 996 $aThe fable of the keiretsu$92216402 997 $aUNINA