chapter 1 Introduction: Culture, economics, and economic behavior -- chapter 2 Western economics and the economy of Japan -- chapter 3 "What are the questions?" -- chapter 4 An analytical vision of the workings of the United States economy -- chapter 5 The workings of the Japanese economy --...

This paper presents a model of the firm that includes the possibility of firm and employee-on-the-job decision making based on alternatives to profit and utility maximization. Such alternatives are relevant and significant when explaining firm activity in cultural environments in which self...