Table Of ContentProduction Organizations in Japanese
Economic Development
In this important new book, a bevy of international contributors explore how
production was organized in the context of the economic development of
modern Japan.
Production organizations are taken to mean the long-term relationships which
economic agents create for production, based on employment contracts or long-
term transactions. This includes hierarchical organizations such as factories and
corporations, but also flexible arrangements such as subcontracting.
Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development presents the
first investigation into the historical development of production organizations in
Japan, based on the economics of organization. Contributors provide new
insights into several areas including: determinants of organizational choice,
governance mechanism of putting-out system, efficiency implication of putting-
out system, evolutionary mechanism of organizational development.
Tetsuji Okazaki is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, The University of
Tokyo.
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Production Organizations
in Japanese Economic
Development
Edited by Tetsuji Okazaki
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Contents
List of contributors xi
1 Introduction: history of production organizations 1
TETSUJI OKAZAKI AND MASAKI NAKABAYASHI
2 The rise of the power-loom factory in the traditional
silk-weaving district: change in demand and labour market 14
TOMOKO HASHINO
3 The Registration System and the Grade Wage: from
cooperation to a market for human capital? A lesson from
the Japanese silk reeling industry 39
RYO KAMBAYASHI
4 Personnel management and the formation of modern
businessorganisation: the railway industry in Japan before
the First World War 75
NAOFUMI NAKAMURA
5 Determinants and effects of employing professional
corporateexecutives: a case of cotton-spinning companies in
pre-war Japan 110
TETSUJI OKAZAKI
6 Flexibility and diversity: the putting-out system in the silk
fabricindustry of Kiryu, Japan 127
MASAKI NAKABAYASHI
7 The development of dispersed production organization in
the interwar period: the case of the Japanese toy industry 167
MASAYUKI TANIMOTO
