developed economies and the economies of developing economies. While such groups (called zaibatsu in Japan) are thought to have … provided coordination for big push growth successfully in pre-second-world-war Japan after a state-run big push failed, it is … elsewhere in Asia. We hypothesize that pyramidal business groups can be private-sector mechanisms for coordinating big push …

geographical edge of Asia leads to bouts of agonising, excitement and temporising. This has been given particular cogency with the … power shift underway from the trans-Atlantic to the Asia-Pacific. The 2012 White Paper set 25 national objectives to be met …. But in this transactional embrace of Asia that highlights economic and trade links, gaps might open up between ambition …

This book is a study of ties between China and Japan and their Asian counterparts. It does not therefore directly treat …

, such as Japan, China, Indonesia, and Thailand? Based on leadership studies conducted in Japan, we argue that Japanese …