ABSTRACT
As demonstrated in the preceding chapters, kigyoism is a gigantic system that pervades Japan’s entire economic society and is difficult to understand in terms of ‘Japanese-style management’ or other such concepts; it comprises both a new economy and a new society. In that sense, then, one must view the impressive achievements of the postwar Japanese economy not simply as the emergence of a single national economy, but as part of the process of the emergence of a new, more progressive economic system, i.e., kigyoism, a system that fitted the conditions of contemporary industrial society and proved itself with actual results.
