The literature on early industrializing Japan characterizes the business-government relationship in antithetical terms of “cooperation” or “independence.” The first position advances that interaction between these actors is largely covert and mutually beneficial and the second...

A socio-cognitive foundation for human agency requires much deeper exploration to adequately understand the origins of our interests, preferences, and choices as they shape both the emergence of institutions, as well as the process of institutional change. In the collegial spirit of...

The paper by Masato Kimura seeks to clarify the contributions and limitations of Japanese business diplomacy by looking at the business mission to Britain and the US in 1921-22, and the Japanese Economic Mission to Europe and the United States of 1937. The paper argues that Japanese business...

A sociocognitive foundation for transformative agency requires much deeper exploration to adequately understand the causal origins of our interests, preferences and choices as they shape both the emergence of institutions, as well as the process of institutional change. In the collegial spirit...