Miwa, Yoshiro; Ramseyer, J. Mark - In: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 11 (2002) 2, pp. 169-224
Central to so many accounts of post-war Japan, the keiretsu corporate groups lacked economic substance from the start. Conceived by Marxists committed to locating "domination" by "monopoly capital," they found an early audience among western scholars searching for evidence of culture-specific...