Restructuring Japanese Business for Growth consists of eighteen previously unpublished invited chapters by experts on Japanese business. It will attract both commercial and academic interest. Japanese business can be expected to continue to be of great importance in global and Asian economics,...

Opportunities and challenges brought by the NIR for industrial upgrading in China -- Industrial policy and overcapacity: empirical research of China -- Zombie firms and industrial upgrading -- Industrial structure and global value chain -- Product Space and quality upgrade -- Platform economy:...

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies"-the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Japan-are being edged out of a profitable future. But if countries that historically have been at the...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE / Aldcroft, D. H. -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: BRITISH INDUSTRY AND FOREIGN COMPETITION, 1875-1914 / Aldcroft, D. H. -- CHAPTER 2. THE COAL INDUSTRY / Taylor, A. J. -- CHAPTER 3. IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURES / Payne, P. L. -- CHAPTER 4. THE COTTON INDUSTRY /...