Japanese Business Products

Edited by Yoichi Funabashi, Barak Kushner

This book examines five features of Japan’s ‘Lost Decades’: the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan’s earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable political instability and failed reform attempts; shifting balances of power in the region and changing…

Paperback – 2016-12-12 
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

By H. B. Montgomery

This book, first published in 1908, is a result of Helen Barrett Montgomery’s visits to Japan, and the way in which she experienced Japanese life and culture. This book thoroughly examines aspects such as religion, language, trade and education in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century.…

Paperback – 2016-11-30 
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Routledge Revivals

By Hitoshi Iwashita

This book provides a new understanding of the constellations of logics in Japanese management practices in Asia and the West. Through comparative ethnographic case studies in a Japanese multinational corporation (MNC), the book explores cultural meanings of ‘family’, corporation, market and…

Hardback – 2016-11-23 
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Routledge Frontiers of Business Management

By Pierre-Yves Donze

The phenomena of Japan emerging as one of the most competitive industrial nations in the twentieth century and the general shift of competitiveness to East Asia since the 1980s have been widely studied by many scholars from different fields of the social sciences. Drawing on sources from Japanese,…

Hardback – 2016-11-09 
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Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

By Anne Stefanie Aronsson

Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass…

Paperback – 2016-10-31 
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

By Ruth Taplin

The Japanese economy is the second largest in the world and is becoming once more one of the most competitive. Despite the stagnation and deflation experienced during the 1990s, Japan has progressively become more aware of the need to be a global player, in particular under the radical…

Paperback – 2016-07-13
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Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

By Yuki Allyson Honjo

This is the first in-depth study of the early trial-and-error experiences of contracting between Japanese and western merchants trading in the Japanese Treaty Ports in the eighteen year period immediately following the opening of the ports in 1859. Fundamental to the equation were the inevitable…

Paperback – 2016-05-20
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Japan Library

Edited by Parissa Haghirian

The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Business and Management provides a comprehensive overview of management and business processes and practices in Japanese companies. The contributors combine theoretical findings and research results with a practical and contemporary view on how corporations and…

Hardback – 2016-02-04
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By Bowen C. Dees

There is virtually nothing - until the arrival of this study - addressing the significance of the enormous contributions in science and technology towards the realization of Japan's 'economic miracle' during the occupation period. Describes the Scientific and Technical Division of McArthur's GHQ.…

Paperback – 2016-01-21
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Japan Library

Edited by Keith Jackson, Phillipe Debroux

The Japanese economy has made a remarkable recovery from the so-called ‘Lost Decade’ of the 1990s. This said, demographic trends suggest that Japan will have to show remarkable powers of innovation if it is to continue to prosper in the global economy. For, around the turn of the last century texts…

Paperback – 2015-12-21
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By Chie Yorozu

Scandals and failures in some of the best known international Japanese-owned companies have shown that there is sometimes a considerable difference between the public and internal narratives of Japanese firms. This book explores the extent to which Japanese firms’ public claims reflect wider…

Hardback – 2015-11-26
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Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

Edited by Robert Fitzgerald, Chris Rowley

Since the bursting of Japan’s bubble economy, from 1990 onwards, its multinational companies (MNCs) have faced new competitive challenges, and questions about the management practices on which they had built their initial success in global markets. Japanese engagement in the international economy…

Hardback – 2015-10-19
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