The Japanese Enterprise System: Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures

By W. Mark Fruin

This work merges inquiry and interpretation in a study of the evolution and emergence of Japan's leading industrial firms in the twentieth century. It combines historical and organizational analyses with development and strategy studies. This synthesis offers a model of institutional development under conditions of late economic development and private initiative that falls somewhere between a capitalist development state and a free market economy. Business rather than industrial policy is emphasized, revealing robust institutions and a dynamic to activate and encourage interaction among them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198283180
• ISBN13: 9780198283188
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.2" x 6.4"