Comparative Responses to Globalization

EUGENE K. CHOI Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Technology Management, Ritsumeikan University, JapanCARLO MORELLI Senior Lecturer in Business and Economic History, University of Dundee, ScotlandMINORU SHIMAMOTO Associate Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, JapanHIROMI SHIOJI Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan JUDY SLINN Senior, Lecturer, Department of Business and Management, Oxford Brookes University, UKANDREW SMITH Senior Lecturer in History, Coventry University, UKJON STOBART Professor in History, University of Northampton, UKAASHISH VELKAR Lecturer in History, University of Manchester, UK

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Contributors Notes on Conventions Introduction: Comparative Perspectives of Globalization: Historical Reflections on British and Japanese Enterprises An Empire of Goods? Groceries in Eighteenth-century England; J.Stobart Globalization and Voluntary Consensus Standardization in the British Wire Industry c1880; A.Velkar The City of London, British Ethnic and National Identities, and Investment Decisions in the Anglophone New World, 1860-1914; A.Smith The Genesis of Modern Management of Technology: The Case of the Meiji Cotton Spinning Sector in Globalization Circa 1880s-1890s; E.Choi Globalization and Family Business, The Renewal of Idemitsu Kosan, 1990s-2000s; M.Shimamoto Jute, Firm Survival and British Industrial Policy: Government Action Under Globalization; C.Morelli Emerging Market Strategies in Compact Vehicles: The Case of Japanese Automakers; H.Shioji The Pressures of Globalization in Retail: The Path of Japanese Department Stores, 1930s-1980s; R.Fujioka Globalization and Change in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990-2010; M.Umemura The UK Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges in an Era of Globalization; J.Slinn Index