Organization, Performance and Equity: Perspectives on the Japanese Economy provides an analysis of key components of the Japanese economy and business structures, edited by two leading American-based Japan scholars. The contributions to this book are grouped into four major categories: organizations; income distributions; technological progress; and macro performance. The first section examines the retail sector, the role of information in evaluating distribution systems, and ownership structures and their effect on welfare, all in the context of the Japanese economy. The second section concerns issues of Japanese tax structures, growth, and income transfers, while the third section focuses on technology and productivity. The concluding section addresses major macro issues like trade and the value of the yen.

Product Description: Industrial competition with rising economies, new regional investment from the West, and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan’s long postwar prominence. Global market dynamics and regional competition prompted the shift from offshore factories to local networks in the last decade...read more

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Japan is an example of what is known as a “latecomer” in industrial development. Drawing on case studies of computer and telecommunications and related firms, Donna Doane investigates how intra- and inter-industry cooperation between public and private enterprises pushed rapid technological advancement in Japan. The book places such interlinkage in the context of a historical evolution, starting with prewar industrial house groupings that helped link indigenous and external ideas and form an integrated technological base.Doane focuses mainly on the postwar, catch-up period from the 1960s through the 1980s in which three characteristics associated with late development are examined: multistructured industry, family-based industrial networks, and a distinct government-industry relationship. Implications of the cooperative structure are drawn for other advanced industrial as well as developing countries, where flexible technological networks could help individual enterprises overcome the limitations of isolated organization to survive rapid economic changes.

Discusses Japanese manufacturing, business diversification, research and development, product development, innovation, societal diffusion, and option sharing

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Analyzes the weaknesses and strengths of American high technology to discuss the inability of American industries to connect research and development with production

Explains why the U.S. is less competitive in developing high-tech consumer products, and suggests the reasons for the decline

Product Description: Book by Hayashi, Takeshi

Product Description: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: ISBN: 0861879287. ***Technology Policy and Economic Performance: Lessons from Japan***by Christopher Freeman.

Describes the social changes that could lead to corporate decline, explains how Japanese corporations are facing these challenges, and discusses new technologies, materials and directions