ABSTRACT
The Encyclopedia of Japanese Business and Management is the definitive reference source for the exploration of Japanese business and management. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of this field, the Encyclopedia consolidates and contextualises the leading research and knowledge about the Japanese business system and Japanese management thought and practice. It will be welcomed by scholar and student alike as an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent study, and a solid starting point for wider exploration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |35 pages
A
entry |1 pages
Abegglen, James C.
entry |3 pages
Accounting in Japan
entry |2 pages
Administrative guidance
entry |1 pages
Advertising
entry |2 pages
After-sales pricing
entry |1 pages
Agricultural cooperatives
entry |2 pages
Agricultural policy
entry |3 pages
Airline industry
entry |1 pages
Ajinomoto
entry |1 pages
Akihabara
entry |3 pages
Allowances and non-salary compensation
entry |3 pages
Amakudari
entry |3 pages
American occupation
entry |3 pages
Appraisal systems
entry |2 pages
Appreciating yen
entry |1 pages
Arabian Oil
entry |3 pages
Automotive industry
letter |24 pages
B
entry |2 pages
Bad debt
entry |2 pages
Bank of Japan
entry |1 pages
Bank of Tokyo
entry |2 pages
Banking Act of 1982
entry |2 pages
Banking crises
entry |3 pages
Banking industry
entry |3 pages
Bankruptcies
entry |1 pages
Banto
entry |1 pages
Bottom-up decision-making processes
entry |3 pages
Bubble economy
entry |1 pages
Buddhism
entry |2 pages
Burakumin
entry |2 pages
Business ethics
letter |41 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Canon
entry |1 pages
Capital markets
entry |3 pages
Cartels
entry |1 pages
Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives
entry |3 pages
Central wholesale markets
entry |1 pages
Chugen
entry |2 pages
City banks
entry |1 pages
Cole, Robert
entry |1 pages
Commercial Code
entry |3 pages
Competition
entry |3 pages
Computer industry
entry |3 pages
Construction industry
entry |3 pages
Consumer movement
entry |1 pages
Consumption tax
entry |1 pages
Contract employees
entry |1 pages
Contracts
entry |2 pages
Corporate finance
entry |3 pages
Corporate governance
entry |2 pages
Creative houses
entry |4 pages
Cross-shareholdings
letter |23 pages
D
entry |2 pages
Daiei
entry |1 pages
Daihyoken
entry |1 pages
Daiichi Kangyo Bank
entry |2 pages
Dango
entry |1 pages
Debt/equity ratios
entry |2 pages
Deming, W. Edwards
entry |1 pages
Dentsu
entry |2 pages
Department stores
entry |1 pages
Depressed industries
entry |2 pages
Depressed industries in postwar Japan
entry |1 pages
Depressed industries in the 1990s
entry |1 pages
Depressed Industries Law (1978)
entry |2 pages
Deregulation
entry |1 pages
Discounters
entry |3 pages
Distribution system
entry |1 pages
Dodge, Joseph M.
entry |1 pages
Dokoh, Toshio
entry |1 pages
Dollar shock
entry |1 pages
Dore, Ronald
entry |2 pages
Dual structure theory
letter |26 pages
E
entry |4 pages
E-commerce
entry |1 pages
Economic crisis in Asia
entry |3 pages
Economic growth
entry |1 pages
Economic ideology
entry |4 pages
Education system
entry |3 pages
Electronics industry
entry |3 pages
Enterprise unions
entry |2 pages
Environmental and ecological issues
entry |1 pages
Environmental regulations
entry |3 pages
Export and import of technology
entry |1 pages
Export-Import Bank of Japan
letter |12 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Fair Trade Commission
entry |2 pages
Firm strategies for technology
entry |1 pages
5S campaign
entry |1 pages
Foreign aid
entry |3 pages
Foreign companies in Japan
entry |2 pages
Foreign workers
entry |1 pages
Fuji Photo Film
entry |1 pages
Fukuzawa, Yukichi
letter |13 pages
G
entry |4 pages
Genba-shugi
entry |3 pages
General trading companies
entry |1 pages
Geography
entry |2 pages
Giri
entry |3 pages
Guilds
letter |8 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Habatsu
entry |1 pages
Taste aversion learningHayakawa, Tokuji
entry |1 pages
Heisei boom
entry |2 pages
History of the labor movement
entry |1 pages
Honda Motor
entry |1 pages
Honda, Soichiro
entry |1 pages
Human relations management
letter |27 pages
I
entry |4 pages
Ie
entry |1 pages
Ikeda, Hayato
entry |1 pages
Inamori, Kazuo
entry |2 pages
Income doubling plan
entry |2 pages
Industrial efficiency movement
entry |3 pages
Industrial groups (keiretsu)
entry |4 pages
Industrial policy
entry |2 pages
Industrial regions
entry |3 pages
Industry and trade associations
entry |2 pages
Internal labour markets
entry |1 pages
Ishikawa, Kaoru
entry |1 pages
ISO issues
entry |1 pages
Ito-Yokado
entry |1 pages
Itochu
entry |1 pages
Iwasaki, Yataro
entry |1 pages
Izanagi boom
letter |50 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Japan Airlines
entry |1 pages
Japan Association of Corporate Executives
entry |3 pages
Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association
entry |1 pages
Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry
entry |2 pages
Japan Development Bank
entry |1 pages
Japan External Trade Organization
entry |1 pages
Japan Federation of Economic Organizations
entry |3 pages
Japan Federation of Employers' Associations
entry |1 pages
Japan, Inc.
entry |1 pages
Japan National Railways
entry |1 pages
Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development
entry |2 pages
Japanese business in Africa
entry |2 pages
Japanese business in Australia
entry |1 pages
Japanese business in Canada
entry |1 pages
Japanese business in China
entry |3 pages
Japanese business in Germany
entry |2 pages
Japanese business in Italy
entry |3 pages
Japanese business in Korea and Taiwan
entry |1 pages
Japanese business in Latin America
entry |1 pages
Japanese business in Mexico
entry |3 pages
Japanese business in Southeast Asia
entry |2 pages
Japanese business in the Middle East
entry |2 pages
Japanese business in the UK
entry |2 pages
Japanese business in the USA
entry |2 pages
Japanese Industrial Standards
entry |2 pages
Japanese investment patterns
entry |4 pages
Japanese multinational enterprises
entry |1 pages
Johnson, Chalmers
entry |2 pages
Joint stock corporation
entry |1 pages
Joint ventures
entry |1 pages
Juran, Joseph M.
entry |2 pages
Just-in-time
letter |11 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Kaizen
entry |1 pages
Kanban
entry |2 pages
Kansai culture
entry |1 pages
Kansayaku
entry |1 pages
Kao
entry |1 pages
Karoshi
entry |1 pages
Keio University
entry |1 pages
Kirin Brewery
entry |1 pages
Koike, Kazuo
entry |1 pages
Komiya, Ryutaro
entry |2 pages
Konbini
entry |1 pages
Kyocera
letter |15 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Large Retail Store Law, 1974
entry |3 pages
Liberal Democratic Party
entry |4 pages
Liberalization of financial markets
entry |3 pages
Lifetime employment
entry |2 pages
Localization
entry |1 pages
Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan
letter |38 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Madogiwa zoku
entry |1 pages
Madoguchi shido
entry |4 pages
Main bank system
entry |1 pages
Marketing in Japan
entry |1 pages
Marubeni
entry |1 pages
Maruyu
entry |1 pages
Matsushita Electric Industrial Corporation
entry |3 pages
Matsushita, Konosuke
entry |3 pages
Meiji restoration
entry |2 pages
Men in charge of MOF (mofutan)
entry |3 pages
Ministry of Construction
entry |3 pages
Ministry of Finance
entry |3 pages
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
entry |3 pages
Ministry of Labor
entry |1 pages
Minomura, Rizaemon
entry |1 pages
Mitsubishi
entry |1 pages
Mitsui
entry |1 pages
Mitsukoshi
entry |1 pages
Mochiai
entry |1 pages
Morita, Akio
entry |3 pages
Motorcycle industry
letter |17 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Nakauchi, Isao
entry |1 pages
Naniwa bushi
entry |1 pages
Nec
entry |3 pages
Negotiations
entry |1 pages
Nemawashi
entry |1 pages
New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated
entry |2 pages
Nihon Keizai Shimbun
entry |3 pages
Nihonteki keiei
entry |1 pages
Nikkei jin
entry |1 pages
Nintendo
entry |1 pages
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
entry |1 pages
Nissan
entry |2 pages
Nomura Securities
entry |1 pages
Nonaka, Ikujiro
entry |1 pages
Norin Chukin Bank
letter |15 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Office ladies
entry |1 pages
Ohmae, Kenichi
entry |1 pages
One-to-one marketing
entry |1 pages
Ono, Taiichi
entry |2 pages
Organizational learning
entry |1 pages
Obstacles to effective organizational learning
entry |1 pages
Outplacement
entry |2 pages
Overseas business of small and medium-sized enterprises
entry |1 pages
Overseas education
entry |3 pages
Overseas production
entry |1 pages
Overseas research and development
letter |18 pages
P
entry |4 pages
Patent system
entry |1 pages
Permanent employee
entry |3 pages
Pharmaceuticals industry
entry |4 pages
Post-Second World War recovery
entry |2 pages
Postal savings
entry |1 pages
Pricing practices
entry |1 pages
Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution
entry |2 pages
Product development
entry |1 pages
Promissory notes
letter |6 pages
Q
entry |2 pages
Quality control circles
entry |4 pages
Quality management
letter |10 pages
R
entry |3 pages
Rengo
entry |1 pages
Research cooperatives
entry |2 pages
Restructuring
entry |3 pages
Retail industry
entry |1 pages
Ringi seido
letter |41 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Salaryman
entry |2 pages
Samurai, role of
entry |1 pages
Sarakin
entry |3 pages
Science and technology policy
entry |2 pages
Seniority promotion
entry |1 pages
7–11 Japan
entry |1 pages
Shareholder weakness
entry |1 pages
Sharp
entry |2 pages
Shibusawa, Eiichi
entry |2 pages
Shingikai
entry |1 pages
Shingo, Shigeo
entry |2 pages
Shukko
entry |1 pages
Small and medium-sized firms
entry |1 pages
Social marketing
entry |3 pages
Software industry
entry |2 pages
Sohyo
entry |2 pages
Sokaiya
entry |1 pages
Sony
entry |3 pages
Standard setting
entry |1 pages
Stockholders' general assembly
entry |2 pages
Strategic partnering
entry |3 pages
Subcontracting system
entry |1 pages
Suggestion systems
entry |1 pages
Sumitomo
entry |1 pages
Superstores
entry |2 pages
Supply chain management in Japan
letter |31 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Taguchi, Genichi
entry |1 pages
Takeovers
entry |1 pages
Tanaka, Kakuei
entry |1 pages
Telecommunications industry
entry |1 pages
The 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
entry |1 pages
The 1980s and 1990s
entry |1 pages
The 2000s
entry |1 pages
Three sacred treasures
entry |3 pages
Tokugawa period
entry |1 pages
Tokyo University
entry |3 pages
Tonya
entry |1 pages
Torishimariyakukai
entry |2 pages
Torishimariyakukai structure and function
entry |1 pages
Toshiba
entry |2 pages
Total productive maintenance
entry |1 pages
Toyota
entry |3 pages
Toyota production system
entry |3 pages
Trade barriers
entry |2 pages
Trade negotiations
entry |1 pages
Trade negotiations after the Framework
entry |2 pages
Tsukiji market
letter |4 pages
U
entry |2 pages
Ueno, Yoichi
entry |1 pages
Unemployment
entry |2 pages
US investment in Japan
letter |5 pages
V
entry |4 pages
Venture capital industry
entry |1 pages
VLSI Research Cooperative
letter |7 pages
W
entry |1 pages
Wartime legacy
entry |1 pages
The Purge
entry |1 pages
Anti-war ideology
entry |1 pages
Postwar reforms
entry |1 pages
End of aristocracy
entry |1 pages
Relations with Asian nations
entry |1 pages
White-collar workers
entry |3 pages
Women's roles
letter |1 pages
Y
entry |1 pages
Yamato Transportation
letter |4 pages
Z
entry |4 pages
Zaibatsu
