'Deficient in Commercial Morality'?: Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

by Janet Hunter

This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of 'commercial morality', despite a major political and economic transformation. As Britain industrialised during the nineteenth century the issue of 'commercial morality' was increasingly debated. Concerns about standards of business ethics extended to other industrialising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137586818
• ISBN13: 9781137586810
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.5"