This book is a result of a collective project by Japanese economists, conducted over the period 1981-83, and contains articles on various aspects of the Japanese firm with comments by Western authorities in labor economics, corporate finance theory, and Japanese economic studies. Topics treated include: the workings of internal labor organization, economic rationality of such practices as ``life-time'' employment, seniority wages, enterprise unionism and bonus system, the roles of the bank in corporate finance and corporate groupings, the management process and its efficiency, and government-business relationship. Main features of this work are: - the first economic treatment of the Japanese firm, both its financial and labor aspects, beyond the culturalist approach - All the propositions are tested by various empirical methods such as econometrics techniques, interviews - includes institutional description related to the Japanese firm, such as accounting, corporate tax, the workings of internal labor organization on the shop floor.
- ISBN10 0444868224
- ISBN13 9780444868220
- Publish Date December 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Elsevier Science Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 436
- Language English