Comparative Responses to Globalization: Experiences of British and Japanese Enterprises

by M. Umemura (Editor), R. Fujioka (Editor)

Overview

Explores how British and Japanese firms have responded to globalization from a long-term perspective. Incorporates studies from the 18th century and sheds light on the impact of the institutional setting, the influence of government and entrepreneurs, and the weight of historical contingency in conditioning firm responses to globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137263629
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/29/2012
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

EUGENE K. CHOI Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University, Japan CARLO MORELLI Senior Lecturer in Business and Economic History, University of Dundee, Scotland MINORU SHIMAMOTO Associate Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Japan HIROMI SHIOJI Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan JUDY SLINN Senior, Lecturer, Department of Business and Management, Oxford Brookes University, UK ANDREW SMITH Senior Lecturer in History, Coventry University, UK JON STOBART Professor in History, University of Northampton, UK AASHISH VELKAR Lecturer in History, University of Manchester, UK

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors Notes on Conventions Introduction: Comparative Perspectives of Globalization: Historical Reflections on British and Japanese Enterprises An Empire of Goods? Groceries in Eighteenth-century England; J.Stobart Globalization and Voluntary Consensus Standardization in the British Wire Industry c1880; A.Velkar The City of London, British Ethnic and National Identities, and Investment Decisions in the Anglophone New World, 1860-1914; A.Smith The Genesis of Modern Management of Technology: The Case of the Meiji Cotton Spinning Sector in Globalization Circa 1880s-1890s; E.Choi Globalization and Family Business, The Renewal of Idemitsu Kosan, 1990s-2000s; M.Shimamoto Jute, Firm Survival and British Industrial Policy: Government Action Under Globalization; C.Morelli Emerging Market Strategies in Compact Vehicles: The Case of Japanese Automakers; H.Shioji The Pressures of Globalization in Retail: The Path of Japanese Department Stores, 1930s-1980s; R.Fujioka Globalization and Change in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990-2010; M.Umemura The UK Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges in an Era of Globalization; J.Slinn Index