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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910957487903321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Miwa Yoshiro <1948->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The fable of the keiretsu : urban legends of the Japanese economy / / Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9786612537417"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9781282537415"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1282537415"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9780226532721"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0226532720"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (197 p.)"]
[null,null,"Classificazione",null,"QP 450"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"338.8/70952"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Conglomerate corporations - Japan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Corporations - Finance"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Japan Economic policy 1989-"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Japan Economic conditions 1989-"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Introduction -- The fable of the keiretsu -- And of the zaibatsu -- The myth of the main bank -- And of outside directors -- Legends of government guidance -- The cost of kipling."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In The Fable of the Keiretsu, Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend. In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the keiretsu was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of keiretsu, the authors debunk several related \"facts\" as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a \"main bank,\" that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war "]
[{"$nulls":4},"growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business."]