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The Development of Chinese and Japanese Business in an International Perspective: A Bibliographical Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Shin'ichi Yonekawa
Shin'ichi Yonekawa
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Professor of Business History, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
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The primary purpose of this essay is to review studies in Chinese and Japanese business history that have appeared during the last few decades, and above all to review those that are relevant to the articles in this special issue either directly or as an aid to understanding the general background. As far as the latter is concerned, works of economic rather than of business history need to be mentioned. Although these works exist in Chinese and Japanese as well as in western languages, in this article reference will be made only to works in western languages and, when unavoidable, to Japanese-language studies. There will also be comments on the articles forming this special issue.

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Business History Review , Volume 56 , Issue 2: East Asian Business History , Summer 1982 , pp. 155 - 167
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1982

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1 Although the agricultural sector played an important role in the industrialization of Asian countries, I will not refer to works in this important field.

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23 Hannah, L., ed., Management Strategy and Business Development: An Historical and Comparative Study (London, 1976)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Chandler, A. D. Jr, and Daems, H., eds., Managerial Hierarchies: Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Modern Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass., 1980)Google Scholar; Chandler, A. D. Jr, “The Growth of the Transnational Industrial Firm in the United States and the United Kingdom: A Comparative Study,” Economic History Review, 2nd ser., Vol. 33, No. 3 (1980)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Horn, N. and Kocka, J., eds., Recht und Entwicklung der Grossunternehmen im 19, und fruhen 20 Jahrhundert (Göttingen, 1979)Google Scholar, Needless to say, a number of economic historians have been greatly interested in comparative studies for a long time.

24 The goal of the past and future Fuji International Conferences, which are held annually in Japan, is to further comparative studies by putting the history of Japanese management into an international perspective. There is no room here to mention the achievements of these conferences, but it has to be admitted that they have clarified many points of interest or difficulty for comparative studies. At the Fourth Conference, for instance, foreign participants pointed out that some features of Japanese labor management during the period before World War II are not confined to Japan. Presumably they are right, and we must proceed with detailed comparative studies. Nakagawa, K., ed., Labour and Labour Management (Tokyo, 1979).Google Scholar

25 I have given attention to these points in a comparison of the growth of cotton spinning firms in the U.K., U.S.A., India, and Japan, 1884–1936. See Yonekawa, S., “The Growth of Cotton Spinning Firms: A Comparative Study,” in Ohkochi, A. and Yonekawa, S., eds., Textile Industry and Business Climate: Proceedings of the Eighth Fuji Conference (Tokyo, 1982).Google Scholar