Keiretsu economy - new economy?: Japan's multinational enterprises from a postmodern perspective
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Figures x
Foreword by Seiichi Mitani xi
Preface xii
List of Abbreviations xv
PARTI THE FRAMEWORK
1 Introduction 3
I Terminology 3
Postmodern thought categories 3
Japanese economic structures 4
Japanese multinational enterprises 5
The business revolution called New Economy 1
Objectives 7
II Relevance of the Research 8
The postmodern discussion or: a discussion of the postmodern 8
Japan as the focus of attention 10
The multinational enterprise as a research subject 14
Previous research 15
III Demarcation Lines 16
The terms postmodernism / postmodern / postmodernity 17
The view taken of Japan 17
Methodological limitations 18
IV Structure of Hypotheses 20
Basic approach 20
Hypothesis of the postmodern economic model 21
vi Contents
Hypothesis of Japan s postmodernity 22
Structuring the task 23
V Initial Summary: modus operandi 24
PART II ECONOMICS AND THE POSTMODERN
2 Postmodern Principles 31
I Overview 31
II Approaches to the Postmodern 32
The genealogy of postmodernism 32
Architecture and postmodernism 34
Postmodern infiltration of science 35
III Special Features of the Postmodern Debate 37
Habermas, or the existence of postmodernity 37
Rorty, or postmodern society 46
Lyotard, or the postmodern economy 53
IV Digression: Japan s Reception of the Postmodern 66
V The Postmodern in the New Economy 71
VI Summary Two: the postmodern character 72
PART III JAPAN: NEW OR OLD POSTMODERN
ALL THE SAME
3 Postmodern Indicators in Japanese Culture 77
I Overview 77
II The Structure and Function of the Japanese Language 78
Writing, speaking and interpreting 78
The ambiguity of meaning 80
Blurring of the subject 81
Pragmatism in communicating 82
III Zen Principles 83
Japan a multireligious nation 83
Zen and rationality 84
Contents vii
The pragmatism of Zen 85
The dissolution of self 86
Digression: the No theatre 86
The Zen value system 87
IV Social Models and the Social Mechanism of Japan 88
The web of individual relationships 88
The special features of Japanese society 94
Japan as a social network 97
V Third Summary: The Social Principles on which Japan s
Postmodernity is Founded 100
4 The Structural Environment Surrounding Japan s Multinational
Enterprises a Driving Force for Change 104
I Overview 104
II How Japan s Ability to Adapt Affects Structural Change 105
III The Initiators and Mechanisms of Change 111
Individual and organizational elements 111
Selected interpersonal mechanisms 120
The links between politics, bureaucracy and the economy from an
overall perspective 132
A model illustrating the template on which Japanese economic
coordination is based 134
IV The Basic Principles of Structural Change in Japan 137
The role of the MIT I in general economic policy 137
Economic strategies from the Tokugawa period to the Second
World War 142
Economic development up to the end of the 1970s 145
The 1980s and 1990s 149
Overview of Japan s economic strategies 151
V The Quest for Fundamental Change 156
VI Postmodern Society, an Abstract Paradigm as a Realistic Goal 160
The turn of the millennium concept 160
The roles of the Zaibatsu and the Keiretsu 166
VII Fourth Summary: Japan s Transformation to a Society of
the Future 169
viii Contents
5 Keiretsu: Japanese Multinational Enterprises and the Postmodern 173
I Overview 173
II The Current Economic Theory s Explanation of Japanese
Multinational Enterprises 174
The correlation between the Keiretsu and MNEs in research terms 174
Conventional MNE theories 178
Unorthodox MNE perspectives 18 5
The network approach 193
III Keiretsu Structures in the Japanese Economy 202
Phenotypes of the Keiretsu 202
Structural history 208
Their contemporary presence as multinational enterprises 213
The functions of the Keiretsu 222
IV The Mitsubishi Keiretsu as a Case Study of a Keiretsu s
Basic Structure 230
Historical overview 230
The composition of the core structure 233
The relationship network of the Keiretsu firms 240
The Keiretsu enterprise as a fractal structure 248
The role of the Mitsubishi Keiretsu as a futurizing organization 253
V Fifth Summary: are Japan s MNEs Postmodern? And what
about the New Economy ? 255
6 Postscript: Bringing it all Together Postmodern New Economy
Japan MNE 261
Notes 264
Bibliography 351
Index 402
List of Tables
4.1 Innovation intensive products as a percentage of exports 108
4.2 Productivity growth, gross national product (adj. for population
growth) and growth of exports, 1870 1998 109
4.3 Comparison of strategies and criteria for decision making 152
4.4 Distribution of the Japanese workforce 152
5.1 Evolution of Japanese economic and business networks 201
5.2 Japanese export concentration pre 1950 211
5.3 Share of foreign trade captured by the big trading companies/
Keiretsu/networks 213
5.4 Relative sizes of the Keiretsu, 1990 95 (average) and trend (2000) 218
5.5 Financial relations between banks and trading companies at the
beginning of the 1990s 220
5.6 Share of Keiretsu owned equity holdings in the Keiretsu 221
5.7 Composition of banks and insurance companies cross holding
portfolios, 1999 221
5.8 General data of the Mitsubishi Keiretsu in the 1990s . 244
5.9 Economic top line figures for Mitsubishi Keiretsu in the
1990s v. today 248
5.10 General business data of the Mitsubishi Keiretsu in the
1990s v. today 251
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List of Figures
1.1 Flow chart of the book 25
4.1 Japan s dynamic energy a bird s eye perspective 105
4.2 Japan s mechanisms of transformation 110
4.3 Formal relations between business, (networking) associations and
the political sphere 113
4.4 Formation of a Zaikai 114
4.5 Selected clubs of the Keiretsu 114
4.6 Interlinkages between bureaucracy, parties and enterprises 115
4.7 Structures of leadership in Japan 117
4.8 The working team (ka) as the nucleus of company structure 118
4.9 Principles of cooperation, responsibility and power 119
4.10 Normative environment of decisions 120
4.11 The nemawashi decision making process 124
4.12 Functions of the ringi process 126
4.13 Formal steps of a ringi process 128
4.14 The nucleus of economic coordination 135
4.15 Typical patterns of coordination in business and economic
questions relevant to politics 136
4.16 Systematics of company networks 137
4.17 General functional principles 138
4.18 Schematic overview of the political dynamics 141
4.19 Japanese factory production (physical and non physical
products combined) 153
4.20 Economic development of Japan, 1950 2000 154
4.21 Main paradigms of business in Japan, 1945 90 155
5.1 Relative importance of the top 6 Keiretsu in the Japanese economy 218
5.2 Networks between the Keiretsu, pre crisis, 1998 219
5.3 Integration of enterprises across time, Japan vs West 229
5.4 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries relative size, 1990 237
5.5 Typical structure of a Keiretsu 238
5.6 Equity cross holdings in the nucleus 239
5.7 Function and coordination of the Keiretsu nucleus companies 241
5.8 The Mitsubishi Kinyokai in the 1990s 243
5.9 The directors network: a structural comparison, Zaibatsu Keiretsu 247
5.10 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries as a sub Keiretsu in the 1990s 250
5.11 The Mitsubishi Motors sub Keiretsu in the 1990s 251
5.12 The Mitsubishi Electric sub Keiretsu in the 1990s 252
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