...Marie Anchordoguy The Japanese Firm, Sources of Competitive Strength . Edited by Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xi, 410 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 214 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ningenkankei...

...Douglas Ostrom The Automobile Industry in Japan: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development . By Konosuke Odaka , Keinosuke Ono , and Fumihiko Adachi . Hitotsubashi University, Institute for Economic Research, Economic Research Series, no. 26. New York : Oxford University Press , 1988 . xvi...

...Bryan K. Ritchie Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: Industry and Firm Studies . Edited by K. S. Jomo , Greg Felker , and Rajah Rasiah . London : Routledge , 1999 . xiii , 399 pp. $125.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1110...

...Mark Fruin Small Firms in the Japanese Economy . By D. Hugh Whittaker . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1997 . xii, 238 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 553 Despite these problems, however, this collection...

...Leonard H. Lynn Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan . By Yoshiro Miwa . New York : New York University Press , 1996 . x, 312 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 1004 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES goal was accomplished. The critical role...

... rates, and gini-coefficients for all of the case countries, it would be useful to see a cross-case analysis of changes in welfare benefits such as pensions and health care. REBECCA MATTHEWS University of Iowa China and India: Economic Performance and Business Strategies of Firms in the Mid1990s. Edited...

...Barry Naughton Chinese Industrial Firms Under Reform . Edited by William A. Byrd . New York : Oxford University Press , for the World Bank. 1992 . 438 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 909 CHINA AND INNER...

...Leonard J. Schoppa Anticompetitive Practices in Japan: Their Impact on the Performance of Foreign Firms . By Masaaki Kotabe and Kent W. Wheiler . Westport, Conn .: Greenwood Publishing Group , 1996 . xv, 208 pp. $59.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998...

...Eric D. Ramstetter 632 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Rival States, Rival Firms: Competition for World Market Shares. By J O H N STOPFORD and SUSAN STRANGE, with J O H N S. H E N L E Y . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 329 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This book analyzes...

...Andrew MacIntyre Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia . By Richard F. Doner . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xv, 371 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS...

..., there is compelling evidence that in many industries these firms exert upward pressure on standards. This evidence supports the approach taken by environmental NGOs working to strengthen domestic environmental enforcement while also promoting technology transfer and opening to greener capital goods imports. While...

...Maki Umemura Americanizing Japanese Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities . By Yukio Yotsumoto . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2010 . 146 pp. $32.00 (paper). Going Global: Culture, Gender, and Authority...

... this transnational network were Qiaopiju remittance firms that succeeded in controlling the remittance trade not by relying on traditional forms of economic organization or behavior, but by pioneering a unique combination of capitalist profit-making strategies, culturalist customer services, and flexible interfirm...

...Meijun Qian Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons argues that, in China, firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign funding are the hidden dragons driving China's technological development, while the domestic firms are technological paper tigers whose technological prowess is fiction...

... as required for sales or purchases. With few exceptions, free competition obtained between the state trading companies and private firms until November 1953, when the companies began to acquire official monopolies of important commodities. By the end of 1954, state concerns had absorbed a number of larger...

... institutional environments; their capacities for efficient operation and growth were therefore also different. Case studies of both types are conveniently found in a field of modern transport—the steamship business which arose to serve the trade in the treaty ports. After 1860 a large number of foreign firms...

... East the United Arab Republic was established under the firm authoritarian rule of Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser; Iraq was taken over by General Abdul Karim Kassim; and Lebanon and Jordan were both threatened by upheavals. In Africa south of the Sahara the military had not yet come to prominence...

...-state relations have distinguished business policy associations as major loci of state ties with Japanese firms (Ishida 1968; Tiedemann 1971; Heidenheimer and Langdon 1968), thereby offering insight into the formation of an entrepreneurial elite and the role of private enterprise in state-directed...

...Ruth T. Mcvey Abstract Harry benda's association with Asian studies stemmed from bitter accident, for he had been of a Prague Jewish family; when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia, his father arranged for Harry's exodus by getting him a job in a Dutch trading firm in the East Indies. A brother...

... and reconstitution of caste institutions, the absence of a firm, explicit definitional base impedes evaluation of the nature, direction, and novelty of social structural change. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Resiliency and Change in the Indian Caste System: The Umar of U.P.1...