TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pascha,Werner
TI  - Systemic change in the Japanese and German economies: convergence and differentiation as a dual challenge 
T2  - English-language series of the Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg
SN  - 0700716343
AV  - HC462.95 .S97 2004
U1  - 330.943 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge/Curzon
KW  - Corporate governance
KW  - Japan
KW  - Germany
KW  - Comparative advantage (International trade)
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1990-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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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