The Japanese Business System: Key Features and Prospects for Change

This paper argues that the Japanese business system cannot be adequately understood without extending the focus of analysis beyond the individual firm to the vertical keiretsu, or business group. The vertical group or keiretsu structure was first identified and studied in the auto and electronics i...

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Main Author: Westney, Eleanor
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT-Japan Program 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7573