American Enterprise in Japan or Democratic Process and the Market

American Enterprise in Japan

Author: Tomoko Hamada

This book describes how American and Japanese management ideologies meet, collide, and contend in the process of competitive cooperation during a joint venture in Japan. In a detailed case study, Hamada describes the very real problems when Japanese and American managers run a business operation, and analyzes them from a comparative, relativistic, and historical perspective.

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Describes how American and Japanese management ideologies meet, collide, and contend in the process of joint ventures in Japan. Hamada (east Asian studies and anthropology, College of William and Mary) analyzes the problems from comparative, relativistic and historical perspectives, drawing on case studies to contribute to both the theory and the practice of international management. Also available in paper (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Bernard Karsh
This is the first study with the experience of an American firm in Japan. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of both American and Japanese firms.

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Democratic Process and the Market: Challenges of the Transition

Author: Mihaly Simai

The transition of the former socialist countries of East and Central Europe to a pluralistic, democratic system of governance and a modern market economy has involved historically-unparalleled changes. In contrast to past examples of systemic transition, democratization in these countries has not resulted from an organic process of development, resting on other social and economic changes, but from "sociopolitical implosion," brought about internally by the collapse of their own socialist regimes and externally by the impact of the dissolution and dismemberment of the Soviet Union.

The global information revolution, providing a window upon the transition process, added another dimension to the unique quality of the upheaval. Never before, in the period of modern history, has the process of transition so clearly demonstrated the complex interaction between past and present; political, economic and social process; cultural values and institutions, and national and international influences.

This volume forms part of the United Nations' study of the global democratic process and offers a specific contribution to the global dialogue on democracy in transition. Eminent specialists in the field, many from the countries under discussion, provide a regional perspective on the interrelation between political and economic change, and delineate the unprecedented challenges recent developments have presented both to the states in transition and to the international community.

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Contributors continue the global dialogue on democracy in transition, provide regional perspectives on the interrelation between political and economic change, and delineate the unprecedented challenges recent development has presented to states in transition and to the international community. They focus on changes in former socialist countries where democratization has resulted from socio-political implosions, looking at patterns and trends in the post-communist region. The editor is affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Science Institute for World Economics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)