This book compares the cross-border integration of infrastructures in Europe such as post, telecommunication and … systematic comparison of a variety of infrastructure sectors, identifies general developmental trends and supplies theoretical …

Europe. This book evaluates the future potential of this new type of enterprise. The contributors look for European …What is Europe's impact on enterprises? 150 years ago, the emergence of nation-states created the national enterprise …

in Europe and the USA. Using the approach pioneered by Michael Devereux and Rachel Griffith, it is shown that companies …

author seeks to develop new vocabularies of comparison, to discover shared aspects of identity, and to achieve, hopefully, an …

A single system of economic governance – capitalism – prevails in the world today, both in theory and in practice. Yet … there is neither a standard definition of capitalism nor a theory of how it works. Moreover, the most common conception of … capitalism is that of a one-level system governed by markets, i.e., supply and demand, where many socioeconomic externalities are …

Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to … capitalism. This volume marks an important contribution to the international debate on the extent to which capitalist enterprises … political economy that is both productive and humane. John H. Sagers is Professor of East Asian History at Linfield College, USA …

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the … not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand …, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the …

'capitalism from above'. For the past ten years the country's economy has faltered and declined. It is turning towards 'capitalism … an in-depth knowledge of the Japanese ethos, national history, educational background, as well as the sociology of the …