Japanese Business Products

By Kenichi Ohno

This is an easy-to-read book that explains how and why Japan industrialized rapidly. It traces historical development from the feudal Edo period to high income and technology in the current period. Catch-up industrialization is analyzed from a broad perspective including social, economic and…

Paperback – 2017-09-26 
Routledge

Edited by Tsutomu Nakano

Japanese Management in Evolution illustrates the significant changes that have been taking place in Japanese business by focusing on "emerging industries" in the relatively neglected service and "creative" sectors as well as other key industries, and to put those changes in historical perspective…

Hardback – 2017-07-12 
Routledge
Routledge Frontiers of Business Management

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…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
Routledge

By Jeremy Breaden

For several decades internationalisation has been a cornerstone of both Japanese government higher education policy and approaches to reform at an institutional level, but Japan has still not managed to lose its reputation as a somewhat reclusive member of the global academic community. Consensus…

Paperback – 2017-05-24
Routledge
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

By Shinichi Hirota

This book develops a new framework - the stakeholder model - that helps to understand corporate finance and governance in modern society, where the sources of people’s happiness have shifted from monetary to non-monetary factors. The book takes a more comprehensive approach than is typically found…

Paperback – 2017-04-15
Routledge

By Takashi Shimizu

 As the world's third-ranking economic power, Japan's style of management, such as the lifetime employment system, the seniority system, and an enterprise union, has been well studied. However, little else is known about the Japanese management control systems (MCSs) and management…

Hardback – 2017-03-27
Routledge
Routledge Frontiers of Business Management

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 – 2016-12-09
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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 – 2016-12-07
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

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 – 2016-11-11
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

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 the cultural meanings of family, corporation, market and…

Hardback – 2016-11-10
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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 – 2016-10-28
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

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
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia