UID:
edoccha_9959148202502883
Format:
1 online resource (225 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-20681-X
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1-134-20682-8
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1-280-47826-8
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9786610478262
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0-203-02801-5
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 6
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-64858-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-36822-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203028018
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