The Japanese and German Economies in the 20th and 21st Centuries : : Business Relations in Historical Perspective / / Kudo Akira.
Supported by a number of high-profile case studies, this volume offers a comprehensive exploration of Japanese-German economic relations through the whole of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. It also offers clarification on the structure and processes of the world economy in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Distinguished Asia Studies Scholars: Collected Writings
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (620 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prologue
- [1] Why Study the History of Japanese-German Relations?
- [2] A Personal Historiography of Japanese-German/Euro-Asian Relations
- PART I Japanese-German Business Relations
- 1 I.G. Farben in Japan: The Transfer of Technology and Managerial Skills
- 2 Dominance through Cooperation: I.G. Farben’s Japan Strategy
- 3 Cultural Barriers Facing Exporters to Japan: German Business in the Inter-war Period
- 4 Search for Stability: Siemens in Inter-war-period Japan
- Part II: Trajectory of Japanese-German Business Relations
- 5 International Cartels in Business History
- 6 Western Multinationals in Japan: Missed Opportunities and Lessons from Inter-war Business History
- 7 Japan’s Technology Transfer and Business Management: An Analysis from the Standpoint of Business History
- 8 The Political Process of IG Farben’s Dissolution
- 9 Second Trial for Catching up: The Introduction of German Technology and the Emergence of the Petrochemical Industry in Post-war Japan
- 10 Americanization: Historical and Conceptual Issues
- 11 Emerging Post-war-type Managers and their Learning of American Technology and Management: The Consumer Chemicals Industry and the Case of Kao
- 12 An Introduction: Approaches to Corporate Governance
- 13 The State of Business History in Japan: Cross-National Comparisons and International Relations
- Part III: Japanese and European Business and Economics
- 14 From Commercial Controversy to Industrial and Technological Cooperation between Japan and the EC: The New Role of Japanese Direct Investment in the EC
- 15 Kao Corporation’s Direct Investment and Adaptation in Europe
- 16 The United Germany and the Future of German Firms: A Japanese View
- 17 A Partnership of Imbalance: Changes in Japanese-European Economic Relations
- 18 The Trajectory of European Integration: Possibilities for Substituting Hegemony
- 19 Americanization or Europeanization?: The Globalization of the Japanese Economy
- 20 A Note on Globalization and Regional Integration
- 21 The Response of Japanese Capitalism to Globalization: A Comparison with the German Case
- Notes
- Index