1st Edition
Regional Development through Ecological Business Unique Cases in Japanese Rural Regions
By Makoto Hirano
Copyright 2013
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Regional disparity is one of the current pressing social issues. Many countries lack basic infrastructures of establishing a new business or industrial cluster. The book argues that existing arguments which have mostly focused on macroscopic view of economy of society or industries may be misguided. The book delivers a refreshing insight... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Research Framework 4. Mental Vitalization through Art 5. Creating Ecological Business 6. Regional Community as Business Platform 7. Sustainable Development through Re-designing Community 8. Globalization of Regional Communities 9. Practice of Regional Vitalization through Ecological Business 10. Summarized Discussions and Conclusions
Biography
Makoto Hirano has received an MBA degree from Temple University in US and a PhD in International Business from Waseda University in Japan. For the past seven years he has been involved in research around regional development issues. He has visited more than two hundred enterprises and organizations in different regions of the world in order to study new management models for contemporary business related to the design of sustainable regional communities and the creation of intangible assets through art.
