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Systemic change in the Japanese and German economies : convergence and differentiation as a dual challenge / edited by Werner Pascha.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: English-language series of the Institute of Asian Affairs, HamburgPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge/Curzon, 2004Description: 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0700716343
  • 9780700716340
  • 0203642740
  • 9780203642740
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.943 22
LOC classification:
  • HC462.95 .S97 2004
Contents:
1. Systemic change, convergence, and institutional choice - an introduction and a summary / Werner Pascha -- 2. Japanese theory of industrialization/modernization : between liberalism and developmentalism / Kiichiro Yagi -- 3. The evolutionary perspective on institutional divergence and competitive advantage / Carsten Herrmann-Pillath -- 4. A comparative institutional analysis of Japanese computer network systems / Seiichi Kawasaki -- 5. Evolution, spatial self-organization and path dependence : Tokyo's role as an international financial center / Beate Reszat -- 6. Technology and innovation management in German and Japanese manufacturing firms : strategic reorientation and implications for technological competitiveness / Martin Hemmert -- 7. Japanese and German corporate governance in transition : forces of change and persistence / Franz Waldenberger -- 8. The Japanese firms' purchasing system : strategic and structural changes of the 80s and 90s / Yveline Lecler -- 9. Implementation of standards : what about the possibility of a convergence production system by international rules? / Cornelia Storz -- 10. Flexible rigidities and redundant capacities : liberalization of employment in Japan and Germany / Karen A. Shire and Jun Imai -- 11. Coping with market rigidities in Germany and Japan / Mark Tilton and Patricia Boling -- 12. The changing role of higher education in the process of internationalisation and globalisation - a Japan-Europe comparison / Ulrich Teichler.
Review: "Should Japan and Germany strive to rearrange their institutional structures to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of differentiation are frequently underestimated. Important thematic issues include: contingency, path dependence and complementarity. Examinations of economic globalisation and rapidity of technological change pose questions about the nature of socio-economic system analysis in the future."--BOOK JACKET.
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1. Systemic change, convergence, and institutional choice - an introduction and a summary / Werner Pascha -- 2. Japanese theory of industrialization/modernization : between liberalism and developmentalism / Kiichiro Yagi -- 3. The evolutionary perspective on institutional divergence and competitive advantage / Carsten Herrmann-Pillath -- 4. A comparative institutional analysis of Japanese computer network systems / Seiichi Kawasaki -- 5. Evolution, spatial self-organization and path dependence : Tokyo's role as an international financial center / Beate Reszat -- 6. Technology and innovation management in German and Japanese manufacturing firms : strategic reorientation and implications for technological competitiveness / Martin Hemmert -- 7. Japanese and German corporate governance in transition : forces of change and persistence / Franz Waldenberger -- 8. The Japanese firms' purchasing system : strategic and structural changes of the 80s and 90s / Yveline Lecler -- 9. Implementation of standards : what about the possibility of a convergence production system by international rules? / Cornelia Storz -- 10. Flexible rigidities and redundant capacities : liberalization of employment in Japan and Germany / Karen A. Shire and Jun Imai -- 11. Coping with market rigidities in Germany and Japan / Mark Tilton and Patricia Boling -- 12. The changing role of higher education in the process of internationalisation and globalisation - a Japan-Europe comparison / Ulrich Teichler.

"Should Japan and Germany strive to rearrange their institutional structures to make them more similar to Anglo-American standards? Where will systemic change lead? This book offers fresh insights by collecting Japanese and German contributions to this scholarly discussion both from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. A major conclusion of several papers is that the forces of differentiation are frequently underestimated. Important thematic issues include: contingency, path dependence and complementarity. Examinations of economic globalisation and rapidity of technological change pose questions about the nature of socio-economic system analysis in the future."--BOOK JACKET.

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