Regulatory and Economic Challenges in the Postal and Delivery Sector (Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy)

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Worldwide, there is considerable interest in postal and delivery economics. Governments, particularly in the European Union, are examining closely the roles of the two systems and how best to regulate them. This volume brings together 20 essays originally presented at the 12th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Cork, Ireland in June 2004. Contributors include researchers, practitioners, and senior managers from throughout the world.

Regulatory And Economic Challenges In The Postal And Delivery Sector

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Regulatory And Economic Challenges In The Postal And Delivery Sector
Michael A. (EDT)/ Kleindorfer, Paul R. (EDT) Crew
Manufacturer: NY
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ASIN: B000N68H24

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This unique collection of research papers addresses the emerging field of e-commerce and e-business, and presents a number of key contributions as the research fields are maturing. Many of the texts represent cutting edge research illustrating the diverse nature of these fields, from conceptual frameworks to state-of-the-art implementations.
Seeking Success in E-Business: A Multidisciplinary Approach includes contributions in areas such as:

-Strategies for implementing e-business;
-Business-2-consumer, business-2-business;
-Internet marketing;
-Evaluation tools for e-business;
-Implications for SME's;
-Mobile commerce;
-Trust;
-Distributed knowledge management;
-Dot.com-driven business transformations.

This volume contains the edited proceedings of the Second Working Conference on E-Business: Multidisciplinary Research and Practice, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Working Group 8.4, as well as by the Danish Center for E-Business Development and the Copenhagen Business School. The conference was held in June 2002 in Copenhagen.

Seeking Success in E-Business: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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Seeking Success in E-Business: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Kim Viborg Andersen
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
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ASIN: B000MUU80K

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Maxine Hancock believes that God's call to modest living is an invitation into freedom for every Christian believer, a call sometimes hard to hear or respond to in our busy, affluent society. Contentment is learned, not earned as a result of things that money can buy.

But is it really possible to live more modestly and still enjoy life? Maxine Hancock and her husband, Cam, experienced a "day of adversity" that triggered their their heeding God's call to a simpler lifestyle, and have gone on making choices on bases other than economic maximization.

Their conclusion: When we reduce our spending, we actually increase our range-of-life choices.

In this book, Maxine Hancock does not advocate poverty. Nor is she against prosperity. Instead, she shows how a person can honour God by choosing new thought patterns and new values. She suggests ways that families can get off the merry-go-round of excessive spending and find creative ways to care for basic needs.

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What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? And in the end, what is the true nature of capitalist development?

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Thomas K. McCraw and his coauthors present penetrating answers to these questions. Creating Modern Capitalism is the first book to explain for a broad audience the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The authors approach each question from a comparative framework and with a unique triple focus on national economic systems, particular companies, and individual business leaders.

Above all, the book focuses on how specific entrepreneurs influenced the economic success of their countries: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce in Britain; August Thyssen and Georg von Siemens in Germany; Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the two Thomas J. Watsons in the United States; Sakichi Toyoda, Masatoshi Ito, and Toshifumi Suzuki in Japan.

The product of a three-year collaborative effort at the Harvard Business School, the book combines cutting-edge scholarship with a finely tuned sense of the art of management. It will engage general readers as well as those with a special interest in entrepreneurship and the evolution of national business systems.

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A pleasant read.......2007-09-24

The book covers the history of capitalism in great detail outlining the major turning points and how it has evolved to shape modern capitalism. A definite must read for whoever is interested in the nature of a capitalist society.

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This is an excellent collection of articles describing people, firms, and nations that succeeded in modern capitlism. Looking a the four most successful economies of the past two centuries: England, US, Germany, and Japan- Prof. McCraw's expertly edited and coherent collection of articles gives the reader a flavor of what made for great success in the capitalist economy. Each country has three articles: a firm, an entrepenure, and the country itself for a total of 12 articles each written by true experts. McCraw's understanding of capitlism is somewhat skewed toward the modern, however on the whole the book is extremely balanced. Of partiuclar note, is Prof. David Moss's article on the Deutch Bank which dicusses the succcess, failures, rewards, and dark side of capitalism.

Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

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Japan Is Changing, But In Distinctly Japanese Ways

Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Steven K. Voge
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ASIN: 0801444497

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As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly wrong. They questioned the very institutions that had been credited with Japan's past success: a powerful bureaucracy guiding the economy, close government-industry ties, "lifetime" employment, the main bank system, and dense interfirm networks. Many of these leaders turned to the U.S. model for lessons, urging the government to liberate the economy and companies to sever long-term ties with workers, banks, suppliers, and other firms.

Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, Japanese government and industry have in fact enacted substantial reforms. Yet Japan never emulated the American model. As government officials and industry leaders scrutinized their options, they selected reforms to modify or reinforce preexisting institutions rather than to abandon them. In Japan Remodeled, Steven Vogel explains the nature and extent of these reforms and why they were enacted.

Vogel demonstrates how government and industry have devised innovative solutions. The cumulative result of many small adjustments is, he argues, an emerging Japan that has a substantially redesigned economic model characterized by more selectivity in business partnerships, more differentiation across sectors and companies, and more openness to foreign players.

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Japan Is Changing, But In Distinctly Japanese Ways.......2006-09-15

Twenty years ago, Japanese management wall all the rage. Then came a long, protracted slump and attention turned elsewhere. Japan fell into oblivion. But while nobody took notice, an interesting thing happened. The Japanese model implemented its own transformation. It was remodeled into something new, but still distinctly Japanese. How this transformation occurred and what kind of new model came into being form the story of this book.

The Japanese traditional system differs from the liberal market model in important ways. It emphasizes the benefits of long-term relationships in labor, banking, and supplier relations. You have an active external labor market on the one hand, a lifetime employment system and a dual economy on the other. A market for corporate control dominated by shareholders' rights versus a main bank system and stakeholders governance. Free market entry and exit versus supplier networks. No model is intrinsically better, although the liberal model may be better adapted to a fast-changing economy at the technology frontier or to sectors where radical innovations occur, whereas the Japanese model has an institutional advantage in a catching-up phase or in sectors that rely on incremental improvements in production processes, such as automobiles and consumer electronics.

Contrary to what some expected, the Japanese model did not converge toward the U.S. one. Nor did it become an hybrid, although elements of flexibility were introduced at various levels. In fact, Vogel shows that liberal market reforms have very few natural advocates in Japan: even groups with the greatest apparent stake in liberalization, such as large manufacturing exporters or consumer associations, are reluctant to embrace reforms that might affect social stability or undermine relations with workers, financial institutions, other business partners, and the government. The Koizumi administration nevertheless succeeded in introducing important reforms, but with a distinctive policy pattern. Japanese authorities proceed with reforms slowly and cautiously; they package delicate compromises, including substantial compensation for those who might be disadvantaged by the reforms; they design reforms to preserve the core institutions of the model as much as possible; and they seek new ways to build on the strengths of existing institutions.

The remodeled Japan differs from the earlier version in at least three important ways. It is more selective: In the face of hard times, companies have become more discriminating in their Partnerships. They have reevaluated their long-term relationships with workers, banks, and other firms, and they have loosened some and tightened others. They have shifted from a reflexive acceptance of these partnerships to a more rational assessment of their costs and benefits. It is more differentiated: Companies have become more variable in their practices. There never was a uniform Japanese model that applied equally to all sectors and all companies, but the model has fragmented further. And it is more open: Japanese corporations have more foreign owners, managers, and business partners than ever before, and these foreign actors bring with them different practices and norms.

Apart from telling a compelling story, this book also distinguishes itself by its extensive use of the comparative case method. It compares patterns of institutional change across countries (Japan versus the United States and Germany), across policy issues (labor market reform versus financial reform, for example), across industrial sectors (automobiles versus retail), across companies (Toyota versus Nissan, etc.) and across time (Seiyu before and after allying with Wal-Mart). This variation across issue areas allows the author to test several hypotheses about the impact of reforms, with sometimes surprising results. The author's scholarship also spans across disciplines, and the result is a fine example of how political science can blend with business studies and institutional economics.

Corporate Capitalism in Japan (Classics in the History and Development of Economics)

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Corporate Capitalism in Japan (Classics in the History and Development of Economics)
Hiroshi Okumura
Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0333575326

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In characterizing the Japanese way of business, Hiroshi Okumura has made one of the most significant contributions to the study of economics. Following his study of the conversion of pre-war zaibatsu to post-war groups of enterprises, he worked on the role of comprehensive trading companies in these groups, the main banking system and the permanent employment system.

Corporate Capitalism in Japan. (Reviews). (book review): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Corporate Capitalism in Japan. (Reviews). (book review): An article from: Journal of Contemporary Asia
Mark Beeson
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ASIN: B0008EVT5S
Release Date: 2005-07-29

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Contemporary Asia, published by Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Corporate Capitalism in Japan. (Reviews). (book review)
Author: Mark Beeson
Publication: Journal of Contemporary Asia (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers
Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Page: 137(4)

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Corporate Capitalism in Japan. : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Corporate Capitalism in Japan. : An article from: Pacific Affairs
Kiyoshi Kawahito
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FA33U
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 680 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Corporate Capitalism in Japan.
Author: Kiyoshi Kawahito
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 75 Issue: 1 Page: 118(2)

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Japanese Corporate Finance and International Competition: Japanese Capitalism Versus American Capitalism (Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy)

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Japanese Corporate Finance and International Competition: Japanese Capitalism Versus American Capitalism (Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy)
Masasuke Ide
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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A clash of capitalisms: Foreign shareholders and corporate restructuring in 1990s Japan (Working paper series / Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School)

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A clash of capitalisms: Foreign shareholders and corporate restructuring in 1990s Japan (Working paper series / Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School)
Christina Linn Ahmadjian
Manufacturer: Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
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Corporate Capitalism in Japan
Hiroshi Okumura
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ASIN: B000OTFAFC

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