Compressed Development

Time and Timing in Economic and Social Development

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av D. Hugh Whittaker, Timothy Sturgeon, Toshie Okita, Tianbiao Zhu, University of Oxford) Whittaker, D. Hugh (Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan, Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan, MIT) Sturgeon, Timothy (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, University of Oxford) Okita, Toshie (Research and Teaching Associate, Research and Teaching Associate, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Zhejiang University) Zhu, Tianbiao (Professor, Deputy Chair for the Department of Sociology, and Executive Director for the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor, Deputy Chair for the Department of Sociology, and Executive Director for the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, D Hugh Whittaker

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This book proposes a new way to approach comparative international development by focusing on time and timing in economic and social development. The UK industrialized over two centuries, and then started to de-industrialize in the late 1960s. Today, the most rapid developers experience aspects of industrialization and de-industrialization simultaneously. It is no longer clear that industrialization offers the path of growth it once did; industrialization has become 'thin.' Demographic and social challenges that earlier developers faced sequentially now come at the same time. Rapid growers experience compression most acutely, but the spatial and temporal fusing of past and present is widespread, affecting high-, middle-, and lower-income countries alike.Timing refers to the differences in historical periods in which development takes place. The geopolitical, institutional and technological environment for countries recently integrated into the global economy has been vastly different from that of the preceding postwar decades of 'embedded liberalism,' although it does contain echoes of the 'first globalization' and 'first financialization' a century ago. The first era of liberalism did not end well, and the second is similarly foundering on the rocks of nationalism and protectionism, as it is being battered by a global pandemic.The authors propose an interdisciplinary conceptual framework based on co-evolving state-market and organization-technology dyads, which will help readers make sense of contemporary development across multiple societies, sectors and geographies, and provide a template for historical comparison.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-17
Mått163 x 242 x 23 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198744948

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D. Hugh Whittaker is Professor in the Economy and Business of Japan, and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. His research encompasses Japanese and comparative employment, innovation and technology management, small firms and entrepreneurship, and development.Timothy Sturgeon is Senior Researcher at the Industrial Performance Center, MIT. His research explores how evolving technologies and business models are altering linkages between industrialized and developing economies, with an emphasis on offshoring and outsourcing practices in the electronics, automotive, and services industries.Toshie Okita is Research and Teaching Associate at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on international and comparative education, sociology of the family, socio-linguistics, youth transition, and social policy.Tianbiao Zhu is Professor, Deputy Chair for the Department of Sociology, and Executive Director for the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang University. His research interests include international and comparative politics, international and comparative political economy, and the political economy of development.

Compressed Development, an IntroductionPart 1: Conceptualizing Compressed Development1: Time Compression: From Stages To Simultaneity2: Eras: States and Markets3: Eras: Organizations and TechnologyPart 2: Experiences of Compressed Development4: China and Japan's Divergent Institutions5: Varieties of Compressed Development6: Employment, Skills, and Upgrading7: Social Policy: Education as a New Frontier of CompressionPart 3: Navigating Compressed Development8: The Adaptive (Developmental) State9: Are We All Compressed Developers?

"...the authors provide a compelling analysis of the ways in which the crisis of Fordism and the rise of the 'network model' of production is central to understand the industrial shaping of the current era of development. The authors are careful in pointing out how this crisis was not simply a crisis of competitiveness driven by the 'Japanese model' of lean production; it was also a social crisis for workers which undermined the social conditions for innovation and productivity across Western Capitalism. In fact, within Western firms, 'lean practices were often applied piecemeal. Reduced in-process inventory and increased monitoring raising productivity and quality were not coupled with employer commitment to job security - required to motivate buy-in from workers - as it was in Japan.