Crisis or Recovery in Japan

Edited by David Bailey, Department of Management, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham University, Dan Coffey, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Leeds University Business School, UK and Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy, School of Management, University of Bath, UK

• Contents:1. Introduction: The Attributes of the Crisis David Bailey, Dan Coffey and Philip R. Tomlinson2. The Workings of the Japanese EconomyDonald W. Katzner3. The Cause of Japan’s Recession and the Lessons for the WorldRichard A. Werner4. Transnational Monopoly Capitalism, the J-mode Firm and Industrial ‘Hollowing Out’ in JapanKeith Cowling and Philip. R. Tomlinson 5. Globalization and the Japanese Subcontractor System Ulrike Schaede6. Institutionally Driven Growth and Stagnation – and Struggle for Reform Terutomo Ozawa 7. Kūdōka, Restructuring and Possibilities for Industrial Policy in JapanDavid Bailey and Roger Sugden8. The National Innovation System: A Key to Japan’s Future GrowthHiroyuki Odagiri9. The Rise and Fall of Japan as a Model of ‘Progressive Capitalism’David Coates10. ‘Can Japan Compete?’ ReconsideredDan Coffey and Carole ThornleyIndex

‘Crisis or Recovery in Japan is a well-written volume that updates our knowledge of the Japanese economy into the 2000s. It constitutes a convenient source of readings for courses on contemporary Japan.'