Japanese-German Business Relations: Cooperation and Rivalry in the Inter-war

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丛书名：Nissan Institute-Routledge Japanese Studies
作者：Akira Kudo
文件大小：1.64MB
文件类型：文字PDF
语言：英语
出版：Routledge，1998年
页数：301
书签：有

内容简介：
The Nissan Institute–Routledge Japanese Studies Series seeks to foster an informed and balanced, but not uncritical, understanding of Japan. One of its aims is to show the depth and variety of Japanese institutions, practices and ideas. Another is, by using comparison, to see what lessons, positive and negative, can be drawn for other parts of the world. The tendency in commentary on Japan to resort to outdated, ill-informed or sensational stereotypes still remains, and needs to be combated.
The ability of Japanese industry to learn quickly from technologically more advanced industrial systems and to raise productivity rapidly is well known from the period since 1945. Many books and papers have been published detailing the intensity of technological learning processes undertaken by large Japanese corporations and even by relatively small companies. As the technological gap narrowed, so a reverse process has emerged, in which Japanese firms invest overseas and a ‘learning from Japan’ phenomenon ensues, which also excites intense analytical interest. What is less well known is how such inter-relationships were embarked upon in the inter-war period, At that time, for the most part, Japanese firms were in their techniques far behind their Western counterparts, but determined to catch up.
Professor Kudo, in this pioneering and detailed study, examines the interactions between selected Japanese industries and their German counterparts during the 1930s. He shows that in many cases the technical and organizational gaps between the German and Japanese firms were so great that firm-to-firm relationships embarked upon quickly broke down, with great frustration felt on both sides. At the same time, the sense of extreme pride, which drove Japanese entrepreneurs to seek to master German industrial processes in as short a time as possible, at times also induced perceptions of Japanese threat among German industrialists. Given the political links between the German and Japanese States during the 1930s, it is at first sight surprising that so much of the economic relationship ended in failure; but, in analyzing in detail how this happened, Professor Kudo gives us numerous intriguing clues about the ultimate secrets of Japanese economic development.

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