Institutional change in Japan /

Institutional change in Japan / edited by Magnus Blomstrom and Sumner La Croix. - 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) - European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian economics & business series ; 8 . - European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian economics & business series ; 8. .

chapter Introduction -- part Part I Institutional change in theory and practice -- chapter 1 Institutional change in Japan: theories, evidence and re?ections SUMNER L A CROIX AND AKIHIKO KAWAURA -- chapter 2 Institutional change in Meiji Japan: image and reality / chapter 3 Institutional reform in Japan and Korea: why the difference? / part PART II Japanese institutions: what has changed, what has not, and why -- chapter 4 A lost decade for Japanese corporate governance reform? What has changed, what hasn�t, and why CURTIS J. MILHAUPT -- chapter 5 Japan's economic and nancial stagnation in the 1990s and reluctance to change / chapter 6 Japanese lifetime employment: a century's perspective / chapter 7 The Japanese labor movement and institutional reform / chapter 8 The changing pattern of Amakudari appointments: the case of regional banks, 1991-2000 / chapter 9 Divorce in Japan: why it happens, why it doesn�t / JANET HUNTER -- CHUNG H. LEE -- THOMAS F. CARGILL -- CHIAKI MORIGUCHI -- LONNY E. CARLILE -- KENJI SUZUKI -- HIROSHI ONO.

9780203968819 9781134180523 9781134180561 9781134180578

10.4324/9780203968819 doi


Institutional economics.


Japan--Economic policy.
Japan--Economic conditions.

HC462.95 / .I67 2006

330.95205 / I597