Institutional Change in Japan / / Magnus Blomström, Sumner La Croix.
This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system. After four decades of rapid economic g...
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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, 241 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Institutional Change in Theory and Practice
- 1. Theories of Institutional Change: How Well Do They Apply to Japan?
- 2. Institutional Revolution: The Case of Meiji Japan
- 3. Institutional Reform in Japan and Korea: Why the Difference?
- Part 2: Japanese Institutions: What Has Changed, What Has Not, and Why
- 4. A Lost Decade For Corporate Governance? What's Changed, What Hasn't, and Why
- 5. Japan's Economic and Financial Stagnation in the 1990s and Reluctance to Change
- 6. Life-Time Employment: History and Response to Crisis
- 7. The Japanese Labour Movement and Institutional Reform
- 8. Is Amakudari Changing? The Case of Regional Banks
- 9. Divorce In Japan: Why It Happens, Why It Doesn't.