Changing Japanese Capitalism

Author : Michael A. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139461054

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Changing Japanese Capitalism by Michael A. Witt Pdf

Economic crisis tends to spur change in the 'rules of the game' - the 'institutions' - that govern the economic activity of firms and employees. But after more than a decade of economic pain following the burst of the Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s, the core institutions of Japanese capitalism have changed little. In this systematic and holistic assessment of continuity and change in the central components of Japanese capitalism, Michael A. Witt links this slow institutional change to a confluence of two factors: high levels of societal co-ordination in the Japanese political economy, and low levels of deviant behaviour at the level of individuals, firms, and organizations. He identifies social networks permeating Japanese business as a key enabler of societal co-ordination and an obstacle to deviancy, and sheds light on a pervasive but previously under-explored type of business networks, intra-industry loops. Includes a foreword by Gordon Redding.

Author : Sébastien Lechevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317974963

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The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism by Sébastien Lechevalier Pdf

In the 1980s the performance of Japan’s economy was an international success story, and led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today, however, the dominant view is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past 30 years, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the great transformation of Japanese capitalism from the heights of the 1980s, through the lost decades of the 1990s, and well into the 21st century. This book posits an alternative analysis of the Japanese economic trajectory since the early 1980s, and argues that whereas policies inspired by neo-liberalism have been presented as a solution to the Japanese crisis, these policies have in fact been one of the causes of the problems that Japan has faced over the past 30 years. Crucially, this book seeks to understand the institutional and organisational changes that have characterised Japanese capitalism since the 1980s, and to highlight in comparative perspective, with reference to the ‘neo-liberal moment’, the nature of the transformation of Japanese capitalism. Indeed, the arguments presented in this book go well beyond Japan itself, and examine the diversity of capitalism, notably in continental Europe, which has experienced problems that in many ways are also comparable to those of Japan. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism will appeal to students and scholars of both Japanese politics and economics, as well as those interested in comparative political economy.

Author : Steven Kent Vogel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801473713

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Japan Remodeled by Steven Kent Vogel Pdf

As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan's past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry ties, "lifetime" employment, the main bank system, and dense interfirm networks. Many of these leaders turned to the U.S. model for lessons, urging the government to liberate the economy and companies to sever long-term ties with workers, banks, suppliers, and other firms.Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact enacted substantial reforms. Yet Japan never emulated the American model. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why they were enacted.Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players.

Author : John Crump
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134403936

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Nikkeiren and Japanese Capitalism by John Crump Pdf

This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in Japan. The author challenges the principal interpretations of how the economy functions revealing a darker side of Japanese capitalism in his examination of the roles played by class power, manipulation and mystification.

Author : Makoto Itoh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349210848

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The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism by Makoto Itoh Pdf

The current world economic crisis and its impact on Japanese capitalism contains many paradoxes. After the historical conditions of continuous growth under US economic hegemony broke down, generating a global economic crisis from the beginning of the 1970s, the restructuring of capitalism through the 'information revolution' seems paradoxically to be causing a historical reverse in social conditions of over a century. Although the Japanese economy is often regarded as an exceptionally successful economy it is not immune from the crisis. The process of restrengthening Japanese competitive power has weakened the social position of Japanese workers. This book offers a stimulating analysis of the dynamics of the world and Japanese economy. The author's previous book The Basic Theory of Capitalism gives a solid theoretical basis for the treatment of the current crisis in this present study.

Author : Robert Boyer,Toshio Yamada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134626755

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Japanese Capitalism in Crisis by Robert Boyer,Toshio Yamada Pdf

This book is invaluable for students and researchers studying the economies of Japan and other East Asian countries as well as all those interested in patterns of boom and recession worldwide.

Author : Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Seiyama Takuro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781315491844

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Japanese Capitalism Since 1945: Critical Perspectives by Tessa Morris-Suzuki,Seiyama Takuro Pdf

This book introduces students of the Japanese economy to a broad range of critical contemporary Marxian analyses by Japanese economists. Each of the five essays - on economic policy, agriculture, big business, labour relations, and foreign trade and investment - is written by a specialist in the field. The introduction places the essays in the wider context of contrasting theories of Japanese economic development. While such writings constitute an important part of the economic literature in Japan, virtually none of the great body of Marxian writing on Japanese capitalism has heretofore been available in English.

Author : Shigeto Tsuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521576210

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Japan's Capitalism by Shigeto Tsuru Pdf

An authoritative account of Japan's economic resconstruction after World War II.

Author : Jon Halliday
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001900617

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A Political History of Japanese Capitalism by Jon Halliday Pdf

Author : Kozo Yamamura,Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501711442

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The End of Diversity? by Kozo Yamamura,Wolfgang Streeck Pdf

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing U.S. capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties of capitalism are now under intense pressure to converge to the U.S. model. Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck have gathered an international group of authors to examine the likelihood of convergence—to determine whether the global forces of Anglo-American capitalism will give rise to a single, homogeneous capitalist system. The chapters in this volume approach this question from five directions: international integration, technological innovation, labor relations and production systems, financial regimes and corporate governance, and domestic politics. In their introduction, Yamamura and Streeck summarize the crises of performance and confidence that have beset German and Japanese capitalism and revived the question of competitive convergence. The editors ask whether the two countries, confronted with the political and economic exigencies of technological revolution and economic internationalization, must abandon their distinctive institutions and the competitive advantages these have yielded in the past, or whether they can adapt and retain such institutions, thereby preserving the social cohesion and economic competitiveness of their societies.

Author : Robert Boyer,Toshio Yamada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Economic history
ISBN : OCLC:1078693024

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Japanese Capitalism in Crisis by Robert Boyer,Toshio Yamada Pdf

Author : Kazuo Satō
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1563247755

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The Transformation of the Japanese Economy by Kazuo Satō Pdf

These readings address various aspects of the transformation of the Japanese economic system from one based on the government-business-bureaucracy triad to one which accommodates such changes as the further slowdown of growth, the rapid ageing of the population and structural changes.

Author : Toshio Yamada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811305177

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Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society by Toshio Yamada Pdf

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about “freedom and equality” and “human rights” in the postwar era but could not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan’s experience by that central concept of Fordism. Inspired by consideration of Japanese civil society and also by the regulationist framework, the author has forged new analytical concepts such as “companyism” to understand Japanese capitalism including the recent “lost decades”, and he elaborates more carefully the concepts of “growth regime” and “institutional change” to grasp the dynamics of the world economy including today’s neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in 1) reviving a Japanese theory of civil society in the postwar period, 2) applying the régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan, and 3) offering theoretical reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently, the author pays special attention to the relationship between the political and the economic as well as regulationist tools and the theory of civil society’s perspective. The principal message of the book is that capitalism or the market economy must be supported by a sound civil society.

Author : Peter Matanle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134403790

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Japanese Capitalism and Modernity in a Global Era by Peter Matanle Pdf

First Published in 2004. This book provides an in-depth examination of one of the most central and defining aspects of capitalist modernity in contemporary Japan-the lifetime employment system. It investigates the key themes surrounding the system, including the work attitudes and values of Japanese company employees and whether or not Japan is converging on Western forms of capitalist organisation. Peter Matanle presents and analyses original documentary data, drawn from extensive research within four large Japanese corporations, in order to explore these issues from the perspective of both management and employees. The findings are then discussed in terms of the development of Japan's capitalism and modernity. It will be of interest to researchers of Japanese studies, Business studies and Sociology.

Author : Marie Anchordoguy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501700866

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Reprogramming Japan by Marie Anchordoguy Pdf

How have state policies influenced the development of Japan's telecommunications, computer hardware, computer software, and semiconductor industries and their stagnation since the 1990s? Marie Anchordoguy's book examines how the performance of these industries and the economy as a whole are affected by the socially embedded nature of Japan's capitalist system, which she calls "communitarian capitalism." Reprogramming Japan shows how the institutions and policies that emerged during and after World War II to maintain communitarian norms, such as the lifetime employment system, seniority-based wages, enterprise unions, a centralized credit-based financial system, industrial groups, the main bank corporate governance system, and industrial policies, helped promote high tech industries. When conditions shifted in the 1980s and 1990s, these institutions and policies did not suit the new environment, in which technological change was rapid and unpredictable and foreign products could no longer be legally reverse-engineered. Despite economic stagnation, leaders were slow to change because of deep social commitments. Once the crisis became acute, the bureaucracy and corporate leaders started to contest and modify key institutions and practices. Rather than change at different times according to their specific economic interests, Japanese firms and the state have made similar slow, incremental changes.