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dc.contributor.authorKikkawa, Takeo
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T11:02:19Z
dc.date.available2023-04-18T11:02:19Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.date.submitted2023-04-13T14:05:39Z
dc.identifierONIX_20230413_9789811994548_58
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62449
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99424
dc.description.abstractThis is the first Open Access book introducing more than 20 of Japan’s leading innovative entrepreneurs from the 17th century to the present. The author outlines the innovative business models created by entrepreneurs including SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo)’s Yanai Tadashi, Honda’s Soichiro Honda, Sony’s Akio Morita, Panasonic’s Konosuke Matsushita, and Toyota’s Kiichiro Toyoda, as well as their predecessors including Takatoshi Mitsui of Mitsui Zaibatsu, Shibusawa Eiichi of Daiichi Bank. While introducing the innovators, the author also raises three broader questions: 1. Why did Japan industrialize earlier than any other country outside Europe and the United States? 2. Why was Japan able to realize unsurpassed economic growth between the 1910s and the 1980s? 3. Why has Japan’s economy stagnated for more than 30 years since the 1990s? Drawing upon analytical concepts including Schumpeter’s breakthrough innovation, Kirzner’s incremental innovation, and Christensen’s disruptive innovation, the author contends that Japan’s successes were based on unique and systematic breakthrough innovation and an accumulation of incremental innovation, while it later fell victim to a combination of breakthrough innovation from advanced countries and disruptive innovation by developing nations.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJK International business
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCG Economic growth
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history
dc.subject.otherBreakthrough Innovation
dc.subject.otherIncremental Innovation
dc.subject.otherDisruptive Innovation
dc.subject.otherEntrepreneurship
dc.subject.otherJapanese Entrepreneurs
dc.subject.otherEconomic Development
dc.subject.otherHistory of innovation in Japan
dc.titleHistory of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Japan
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-981-19-9454-8
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a
oapen.relation.isbn9789811994548
oapen.relation.isbn9789811994531
oapen.imprintSpringer Nature Singapore
oapen.pages291
oapen.place.publicationSingapore


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