The rise of Japan as an economic superpower is a remarkable episode in the history of the modern world. This book seeks to explain this phenomenal success by looking at the issues of culture and technology, and making comparison with the experience of the US, the UK and Europe as a whole. The relationship between culture and technology lies at the heart of the undoubted market success of Japan, and the development of high technology and the much-lauded "cultural" attributes of Japan have contributed powerfully to national success. These vital issues are examined in detail and include, for example, the relationship between company "culture" and "structure," and the overriding impact of Japanese "national" culture. National cultures and the West are compared with the consequent effect on entrepreneurial and technological progress.
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Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University. Fumihiko Satofuka is Professor at Sagami Women's University and currently Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University.
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Japanese industrial modernisation seems to have been based on a workable mixture of flexibility, emulation, adaptation and control. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
causal accounting, technological fusion, imitative activity, lifetime employment system, cultural engineering, seniority pay, technology imports, industrial transition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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causal accounting, technological fusion, imitative activity, lifetime employment system, cultural engineering, seniority pay, technology imports, industrial transition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Capitalism in Contrasting Cultures (De Gruyter Studies in Organization) by Stewart R. Clegg in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Education in Tokugawa Japan (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) by Ronald Philip Dore in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Protestant Ethic And the Spirit of Capitalism by Gilbert Geis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Japanese Factory (Perennial works in sociology) by James C. Abegglen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia) by Ian Inkster in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Zen Arts: An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan (Royal Asiatic Society Books) by Rupert Cox in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) by Ian Inkster on page 71
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