1st Edition

The Development of Japanese Business 1600-1973

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2005. This book has been written as an outline history of the development of Japanese business. A good deal of literature exists on some aspects, and some periods, but this is the first attempt to follow the entire course from the Tokugawa period to the present, and to analyse the salient features from the vantage point of modernisation. A separate section in each chapter deals... Read more

INTRODUCTION

1. THE MERCHANTS OF TOKUGAWA JAPAN, 1600-1867

2. THE MEIJI ENTREPRENEURS, 1868-95

3. THE COLLEGE GRADUATES AS SUCCESSORS, 1896-1940

4. THE ORGANISERS OF THE JAPANESE MIRACLE, 1946-73

5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: THE JAPANESE MODEL OF MODERNISATION

Biography

Johannes Hirschmeier