... to define national specificity. Thus exponents of extreme cultural relativism in anthropology may find in Nihonjinron the reductio ad absurdurn of some current trends. MARY PICONE Universite de Paris 10 (Nanterre) The Automobile Industry in Japan: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development. By KONOSUKE ODAKA...

...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...

...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...

...Meijun Qian In addition to this conceptual incoherence, the empirical evidence is also not convincing for the conclusion on paper tiger domestic firms and hidden dragon ethnic Chinese foreign firms. For example, taking state procurement out of PC sales, as discussed in table 3.2, Lenovo still...

...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 Rival States, Rival Firms: Competition for World Market Shares . By John Stopford and Susan Strange , with John S. Henley . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1992 . 329 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...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...

...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...

...Mary Lovely Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China . By Phillip Stalley . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2010 . 296 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Phillip Stalley...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...Richard S. Eckaus China and India: Economic Performance and Business Strategies of Firms in the Mid-1990s . Edited by Sam Dzever and Jacques Jaussaud . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1999 . xxi, 208 pp. $75.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1084...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...Michael O'Sullivan Abstract This article examines one of the earliest Gujarati travelogues concerning China, written by Damodar Ishwardas—a Hindu resident of Bombay and a clerk for a Sunni Khoja commercial firm—and published in Bombay in 1868. Based on a three-year trip to the port cities...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 2 Quoted in Rudolph Lloyd I. and Rudolph Suzanne...