TY - BOOK ID - 6181177 TI - Information, incentives, and bargaining in the Japanese economy PY - 1988 SN - 0521354730 0521386810 0511571704 9780521354738 9780521386814 9780511571701 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Industrial management KW - Industrial organization KW - Industrial relations KW - J4360 KW - J4560 KW - -Industrial relations KW - -Capital and labor KW - Employee-employer relations KW - Employer-employee relations KW - Labor and capital KW - Labor-management relations KW - Labor relations KW - Employees KW - Management KW - Industries KW - Organization KW - Industrial concentration KW - Industrial sociology KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- business methods and management KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- finance KW - -Japan: Economy and industry -- business methods and management KW - Business management KW - Japan KW - Japanese management KW - Gestion d'entreprise KW - Industrie KW - Relations industrielles KW - Organisation, contrò‚le, etc KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Economics KW - Industrial management - Japan. KW - Industrial organization - Japan. KW - Industrial relations - Japan. KW - Industrial management - Japan KW - Industrial organization - Japan KW - Industrial relations - Japan UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6181177 AB - This book is not another parable of Japan's economic success; it provides rich and systematic descriptions of Japanese microeconomic institutions and interprets their work in terms familiar to Western economists. A systematic, in-depth analysis of Japanese institutions of this kind has never been available before. In making his comparative analysis of the Japanese system, Professor Aoki critically examines conventional notions about the microstructure of the market economy that have strongly shaped and influenced economists' approach to industrial organization (e.g., hierarchy as the alternative to the market, the firm as a propery of the stockholders, and market-oriented incentive contracts). While these notions may constitute an appropriate foundation for the analysis of the highly market-oriented Western economies, the author has found that a more complete understanding of the Japanese economy requires us to broaden such 'specific' notions. At one level, therefore, this book may be regarded as a provocative exercise in comparative industrial organization and the theory of the firm. To the extent that this approach is convincing, the book suggests a reordering of focus and emphasis in these studies. ER -