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Japan's economy has long been described as network-centric. A web of stable, reciprocated relations among banks, firms, and ministries, is thought to play an important role in Japan's ability to navigate smoothly around economic shocks. Now those networks are widely blamed for Japan's faltering competitiveness. This book applies structural sociology to a study of how the form and functioning of this network economy has evolved from the prewar era to the late 90s. It asks whether, in the face of deregulation, globalization, and financial disintermediation, Japan's corporate networks - the keiretsu groupings particularly - have 'withered away', losing their cohesion and their historical function of supporting member firms in hard times. Using detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis, this book's conclusion is a qualified 'yes'. Relationships remain central to the Japanese way of business, but are much more subordinated to the competitive strategy of the enterprise than the network economy of the past.

Business networks --- Industrial organization --- Organizational change --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- J4360 --- J4410 --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Social networks --- Industrial clusters --- Japan: Economy and industry -- business methods and management --- Japan: Economy and industry -- industrial organization and relations --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics

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This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of business groups around the world. It focuses on the adaptive and competitive capabilities of business groups and their evolutionary dynamics, as well as considering the historical and theoretical contexts of business groups.

Firms and enterprises --- Organization theory --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.046.1 --- 338.048 --- 331.19 --- Grote ondernemingen. --- Fusies van ondernemingen. Industriële concentratie. --- Geschiedkundige en andere inlichtingen over industriële, financiële en handelsondernemingen. --- #SBIB:316.334.2A550 --- Conglomerate corporations. --- Business networks. --- Business networking --- Networking, Business --- Networks, Business --- Industrial clusters --- Strategic alliances (Business) --- Chaebols --- Conglomerate mergers --- Conglomerates (Corporations) --- Corporations, Conglomerate --- Keiretsu --- Mergers, Conglomerate --- Partijen en strategieën in de onderneming: patronale strategieën: algemeen --- Conglomerate corporations --- Business networks --- E-books --- #SBIB:35H300 --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Corporations --- Industrial concentration --- Competition --- Social networks --- Organisatieleer: algemene werken --- Geschiedkundige en andere inlichtingen over industriële, financiële en handelsondernemingen --- Grote ondernemingen --- Fusies van ondernemingen. Industriële concentratie

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