1. The Integrated State of Global Production Chain -- 2. Bismarck and German Consensus -- 3. The Meiji Restoration and Industrial Focus -- 4. The New Rome and The US Exceptionalism -- 5. The Current Entrenched Global Gentrification -- 6. The Balancing Acts by Large Industrial Economies -- 7. The...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

Technology Transfer and Economic Growth in Sub-Sahara African Countries – Lessons from East Asian Experience -- Technology Transfer for Economic Growth in Africa – Why it Matters -- Sub-Sahara African Countries’ Attractiveness to Technology Transfer -- Pragmatic Analytical Framework for...

The growth in global competitiveness and interdependence has led to an increased interest in the role of industrial policy in achieving economic growth objectives. Heather Smith reignites the contentious debate of the role of the state using East Asian economic development in general with...

Part I. Translative Adaptation in the Industrialization Process -- 1. Introducing Foreign Models for Development: A Perspective from Translative Adaptation -- 2. Industrial Policies for Learning, Innovation, and Transformation: Insights from Japan and Selected Countries -- Part II. Case Studies...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- I. The Rise and Development of the Modern Cotton Industry in Japan -- II. Labor Supply and Labor Policy in the Japanese Cotton Industry -- III. The Socio-economic Background of the Development of the Modern Cotton Industry in India -- IV. A...