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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 209 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.