Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy : past and present / / edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.95204
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Economic conditions 1945-; Japan Economic policy 1945-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 83.62
• Altri autori: HunterJanet StorzCornelia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : economic and institutional change in Japan / Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz -- Technology and change in Japan's modern copper mining industry / Patricia Sippel -- Professionalism as power : Tajiri Inajirō and the modernisation of Meiji finance / Katalin Ferber -- Investment, importation and innovation : genesis and growth of beer corporations in prewar Japan / Harald Fuess -- Managing female textile workers : an industry in transition, 1945-1975 / Helen Macnaughtan -- Japan's inter-firm relations : on the way towards a market-oriented structure? / Andreas Moerke -- Global finance, democracy, and the state in Japan / Takaaki Suzuki -- Changes and crisis in the Japanese banking industry / Mariusz Krawczyk -- International mergers and acquisitions with Japanese participation : two cases from the automotive industry / Sigrun Caspary -- Environmental protection and the impact of institutional change / Ilona Koester -- Changes in conducting foresight in Japan / Kerstin Cuhls.
• Sommario/riassunto: Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese economy should plan for the future. In this book, leading economists and economic historians of Japan examine a range of key issues concerning institutional and technological change in Japan, rigorously using discipline-based tools of analysis, and drawing important conclusions as t
• Titolo autorizzato: Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy
• ISBN: 1-134-20681-X; 1-134-20682-8; 1-280-47826-8; 9786610478262; 0-203-02801-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348237003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary Japan series ; ; 6.