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BL
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1035184
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b789554
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Lincoln, James R.
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| Title & Author
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Japan's network economy : : a structure, persistence, and change /\ James R. Lincoln and Michael L. Gerlach.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge (England) ;New York, N.Y. :: Cambridge University Press,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Structural analysis in the social sciences
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xx, 409 pages ;; 24 cm.
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0521453046
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: 9780521453042
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-399) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- 1. The structural analysis of the network economy -- 2. The origins of Japanese network structures -- 3. The evolution of a corporate network : a longitudinal network analysis of 259 large firms -- 4. Exchange and control : explaining corporate ties : a longitudinal dyad analysis -- 5. Intervention and redistribution : how keiretsu networks shape corporate performance -- 6. Japan's next-generation industrial architecture.
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"Japan's economy has long been described as organized around or embedded in networks. In times past, the web of stable, reciprocated relations among Japanese banks, firms, and ministries was thought to play an important role in Japan's ability to navigate smoothly around economic shocks. Now those networks are widely blamed for Japan's faltering competitiveness. This book applies the perspective of structural sociology to a study of how the form and functioning of the Japanese network economy has evolved from the pre-war era to the late 1990s. It asks in particular whether, in the face of deregulation, globalization, and financial disintermediation, Japan's corporate networks - the keiretsu groupings particularly - have withered away in terms both of lost cohesion and their historical function of supporting member firms in hard times. Based on detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis, the book's answer is a qualified 'yes'
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Relationships remain central to the Japanese way of business, but they are much more subordinated to the competitive strategy of the enterprise than was true of the network economy of the past."--Jacket.
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Business networks-- Japan.
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Industrial organization-- Japan.
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Organizational change-- Japan.
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Strategic alliances (Business)-- Japan.
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Business networks.
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Corporate Network
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Industrial organization.
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Industrieökonomie
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Netzwerk
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Organisationswandel
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Organizational change.
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Strategic alliances (Business)
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Strukturwandel
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Unternehmen
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Industriële organisatie.
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Netwerken.
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Ondernemingen.
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Japan
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Japan.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.8/7
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| LC Classification
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HD69.S8L553 2004
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83.80bcl
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| Added Entry
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Gerlach, Michael L.
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