Changing Japanese Capitalism : Societal Coordination and Institutional Adjustment

This book analyzes the dynamics of institutional change in Japan during the 1990s and the early 2000s. In doing so, it presents a coevolutionary model of institutional change, and it argues that the characteristics of institutional change -- especially speed -- in Japan and other advanced industrialized countries are mediated by societal coordination (aka quot;strategic coordinationquot;), a construct from the varieties of capitalism literature. The book further contains a detailed exploration of social networks in Japan, which are a key enabler of coordination. In particular, it offers the first empirical survey of a ubiquitous, but previously unexplored, type of social networks in business, intra-industry loops