Small firms in the Japanese economy:
Japan's giant corporations are household names and dominate our views of the Japanese economy. In fact, Japan ranks alongside Italy as having the highest proportion of small firms - and employment in them - amongst the OECD countries. These small firms have either been ignored, or they have bee...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Japan's giant corporations are household names and dominate our views of the Japanese economy. In fact, Japan ranks alongside Italy as having the highest proportion of small firms - and employment in them - amongst the OECD countries. These small firms have either been ignored, or they have been treated as appendages of large firms. This book paints a balanced picture based on a unique and statistically rich survey. It looks at small firms in Japan's leading machine industries, their relations with each other as well as with large firms, and their internal management, employment, and technology dynamics. Paradoxically, in contrast to the 'resurgence' of small firms in other industrialised countries, their number and employment share in Japan are currently in decline. This book explains the reasons why, and challenges established views of the Japanese economy, society, and political economy. |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 238 S. graph. Darst., Kt. |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures page x
List of tables xi
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction 1
2 Small firms and Japan s small firm problem 17
3 Industrial districts 38
4 Small firms and industrial districts: Ota Ward 62
5 Interfirm relations 1: vertical 85
6 Interfirm relations 2: horizontal 107
7 Founders, entrepreneurship, and innovation 126
8 Employment, skills, and technology 143
9 Policy and politics 164
10 A comparative view: small factories in Birmingham 182
11 Sunrise or sunset for Japan s small firms? 199
Bibliography 215
Index 232
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I
Figures
2.1 Structure of subcontracting relationships, 1930s page 21
3.1 Four main industrial regions in pre war Japan 42
3.2 Fifteen main machine industry prefectures 51
4.1 Ota Ward, south Tokyo, and the Keihin Belt 64
4.2 Disappearing factories in Higashi kojiya 81
5.1 Overview of Delayed Payment Law 101
7.1 Startup and closure rates in Japan, 1966 1994 138
8.1 Craft skills and hollowing out 161
9.1 SME policy measures, 1995 170
11.1 Management responses to the changing environment in Ota 203
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Tables
1.1 Small establishment contribution to the Japanese economy,
1983, 1993 page 3
2.1 Factory and employment distribution by factory size, 1920,
1930 24
2.2 Employment structure by company size, 1960 1994 33
3.1 Geographical distribution of machine production, 1909 40
3.2 Fifteen main machine industry prefectures, 1985, 1990 50
3.3 Machine industries in Ota City, Ueda City, and Ota Ward, 1990 55
4.1 Factory growth in the 1930s, Ota Ward 66
4.2 Trends in factory size composition, Ota Ward, 1960 1990 69
4.3 Trends in Ota s machine factories, 1960 1990 70
4.4 Ota s industrial structure by process, 1985 72
4.5 Location of customers by factory size 75
4.6 Location of suppliers by factory size 76
4.7 Ota factories problems with current location 82
5.1 Subcontracting in Japan 87
5.2 Extent of contracts reported by Tokyo subcontractors 89
6.1 Registered SME organisations in Japan 113
6.2 Types of cooperative business association 115
6.3 Activities of cooperative business associations 116
8.1 Wage and labour cost differentials by size of firm, 1991 146
8.2 Part time workers by firm size, 1992 146
8.3 Extent of the five day working week 147
8.4 Employees of C. Manufacturing 154
8.5 Employees of N. Precision 157
8.6 Employees of K. Grinding 158
9.1 SME loan sources 175
9.2 Equipment modernisation programme 177
10.1 Machine industries in Birmingham and Ota Ward 190
10.2 Small firms in Birmingham and Ota Ward 191
11.1 Decline in factory numbers in Ota, 1983 1993 202
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