The Japanese and German Economies in the 20th and 21st Centuries : : Business Relations in Historical Perspective /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Akira, Kudo,
MitwirkendeR:
Yuzawa, Takeshi,
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

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