Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy: Past and Present (Routledge contemporary Japan series ; 6)

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 to how the process of change in these areas actually works. In applying these ideas to Japan, the writers in this volume are focusing on an issue which is currently being much debated in the country itself, and are helping our understanding of the world’s second-largest economy. 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 -- Change 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 Changes In Japan / Ilona Koester -- Changes In Conducting Foresight In Japan / Kerstin Cuhls. Edited By Janet Hunter And Cornelia Storz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 Inajiro and the modernisation of meiji finance / Katalin Ferber Investment, adaptation 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 industrial organisation in motion : keiretsu at the turning point / 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. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Series-Title......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 9 Contributors......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 13 1 Introduction......Page 14 2 Technology and change in Japan's modern copper minig industry......Page 23 3 Professionalism as power......Page 40 4 Investment, importation and innovation......Page 56 5 Managing female textile workers......Page 73 6 Japanese inter-firm relations......Page 88 7 Global finance, democracy, and the State in Japan......Page 104 8 Change and crisis in the Japanese banking industry......Page 133 9 International mergers and acquisitions with Japanese participation......Page 153 10 Environmental protection and the impact of institutional changes in Japan......Page 183 11 Changes in conducting foresight in Japan......Page 201 Index......Page 219 This book brings together leading economists and economic historians of Japan in order to examine a range of key issues concerning Japanese institutional and technological development.