Technology and Industrial Development in Japan
Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation and Public Policy
Series: Japan Business and Economics Series;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 35.99
-
17 194 Ft (16 375 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 719 Ft off)
- Discounted price 15 474 Ft (14 738 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
17 194 Ft
Availability
printed on demand
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 August 2019
- ISBN 9780198838111
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 216x140x17 mm
- Weight 416 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
This book studies the industrial development of Japan since the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on how the various industries built technological capabilities.
MoreLong description:
Japan was the first major non-western nation to take on board the Western technological and organizational advances of the century after the fist industrial revolution. It subsequently proved fully able to exploit and contribute to the broad, sustained technological advances that began in the twentieth century, as science became harnessed to technology. Japan's economic development remains a model for many technologically less advanced countries which have not yet mastered modern technology to organizational forms; and a knowledge of Japanese technological and economic history can contribute importantly to our understanding of economic growth in the modern era.
This book studies the industrial development of Japan since the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on how the various industries built technological capabilities. The Japanese were extraordinarily creative in searching out and learning to use modern technologies, and the authors investigate the emergence of entrepreneurs who began new and risky businesses, how the business organizations evolved to cope with changing technological conditions, and how the managers, engineers and workers acquired organizational and technological skills through technology importation, learning-by-doing, and their own R&D activities.
The book investigates the interaction between private entrepreneural activities and public policy, through a general examination of economic and industrial development, a study of the evolution of management systems, and six industrial case studies: textiles, iron and steel, electrical and communications equipment, automobiles, shipbuilding and aircraft, and pharmaceuticals. The authors show how the Japanese government has played an important supportive role in the continuing innovation, without being a substitute for aggressive business enterprise constantly venturing into unfamiliar terrains.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Richard R. Nelson
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Economic and Technological Change from the Meiji Restoration to World War II
The Post-War Technological Progress and Government Policies
The Evolution of a Management System from the Tokugawa Era to World War II
Management in Post-War Japan and Today
Textiles
Iron and Steel
Electrical and Communications Equipment
Automobiles
Shipbuilding and Aircraft
Pharmaceuticals
What Can We Learn from the Past?
Notes
Appendix
A Brief Chronology of Japan's History
Bibliography
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
