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Comparative Responses to Globalization

Experiences of British and Japanese Enterprises

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Editors:
  1. Maki Umemura

    1. Cardiff University, UK

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  2. Rika Fujioka

    1. Kansai University, Japan

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction — Comparative Perspectives on Globalization: Historical Reflections on British and Japanese Enterprises

    • Maki Umemura
    Pages 1-22

  3. An Empire of Goods? Groceries in Eighteenth-Century England

    • Jon Stobart
    Pages 23-44

  4. Globalization and Voluntary Consensus Standardization in the British Wire Industry, 1880

    • Aashish Velkar
    Pages 45-70

  5. The City of London, British Ethnic and National Identities, and Investment Decisions in the Anglophone New World, 1860–1914

    • Andrew Smith
    Pages 71-98

  6. The Genesis of Modern Management of Technology: The Case of the Meiji Cotton Spinning Sector in Globalization, 1880s–1890s

    • Eugene Choi
    Pages 99-120

  7. Globalization and Family Business: The Renewal of Idemitsu Kosan, 1990s–2000s

    • Minoru Shimamoto
    Pages 121-140

  8. Jute, Firm’s Survival, and British Industrial Policy: Government Action under Globalization

    • Carlo Morelli
    Pages 141-158

  9. Emerging Market Strategies in Compact Vehicles: The Case of Japanese Automakers

    • Hiromi Shioji
    Pages 159-180

  10. The Pressures of Globalization in Retail: The Path of Japanese Department Stores, 1930s–1980s

    • Rika Fujioka
    Pages 181-203

  11. Globalization and Change in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990–2010

    • Maki Umemura
    Pages 204-226

  12. The UK Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges in an Era of Globalization

    • Judy Slinn
    Pages 227-244

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-261
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Explores how British and Japanese firms have responded to globalization from a long-term perspective. Incorporates studies from the 18th century and sheds light on the impact of the institutional setting, the influence of government and entrepreneurs, and the weight of historical contingency in conditioning firm responses to globalization.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff University, UK

    Maki Umemura

  • Kansai University, Japan

    Rika Fujioka

About the editors

EUGENE K. CHOI Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University, Japan CARLO MORELLI Senior Lecturer in Business and Economic History, University of Dundee, Scotland MINORU SHIMAMOTO Associate Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Japan HIROMI SHIOJI Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan JUDY SLINN Senior, Lecturer, Department of Business and Management, Oxford Brookes University, UK ANDREW SMITH Senior Lecturer in History, Coventry University, UK JON STOBART Professor in History, University of Northampton, UK AASHISH VELKAR Lecturer in History, University of Manchester, UK

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