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The Fable of the Keiretsu
Yoshiro Miwa
J. Mark Ramseyer
其他書名
Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2010-02-15
主題
Law / General
Law / International
History / Asia / Japan
Business & Economics / International / Economics & Trade
ISBN
0226532720
9780226532721
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Hfvk3P1KTC8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the
keiretsu,
or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within
keiretsu
groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In
The Fable of the Keiretsu,
Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend.
In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the
keiretsu
was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of
keiretsu
, the authors debunk several related “facts” as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a “main bank,” that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business.