history of business operations from these four countries. Firstly, the book examines innovation practices of long … organizational and technological factors for long-term innovation success. Further, the book provides recommendations based on …

The 5th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation is sponsored by the Chinese …

Intellectual Innovation in Tokugawa Japan -- Chapter 3: Government Bureaucrats and Capitalist Institutions in 1870s Japan … Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered beneath the dignity of the samurai elite. Seeking to overturn the Tokugawa …-stock corporations to Japan as institutions of economic development. As the entrepreneurial head of Tokyo’s Dai-Ichi Bank, he helped …

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the … theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese … elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan’s experience by that central …

broad problems of growth and regional economy, focusing on economic developments in Japan and Korea. Part 2 discusses trade … and foreign investment in Japan, mainly on an empirical basis. Part 3 then examines various public economic policies using … the Japan Association for Applied Economics (JAAE) and the Korean Economics and Business Association (KEBA), and include …

modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been … what has been called ‘the single most important debate in recent global history’. Japan, as the only non-Western country to …-interpreting Japanese economic history in the light of the debate, so arguing that global historians and scholars of Japan have in fact much …

and housing, researched from an advanced perspective of comparative history in Japan. The aim of this book is to make …-Japanese War to the reforms following World War II, by focusing on the conflict between landowners and peasants in Japan. The … second chapter examines the construction of urban housing following Japan’s defeat in World War II, focusing on the …

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an … industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan … since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan. The …