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  title info:
    title: 'Deficient in Commercial Morality'?
    sub title: Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  name:
    name part: Hunter, Janet.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 116 p. online resource.
  abstract: This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan was characterised at the time by exceptionally low standards of ‘commercial morality’, despite a major political and economic transformation. As Britain industrialised during the nineteenth century the issue of ‘commercial morality’ was increasingly debated. Concerns about standards of business ethics extended to other industrialising economies, such as the United States. Hunter examines the Japanese response to the charges levelled against Japan in this context, arguing that this was shaped by a pragmatic recognition that Japan had little choice but to adapt itself to Western expectations if it was to establish its position in the global economy. The controversy and criticisms, which were at least in part stimulated by fear of Japanese competition, are important in the history of thinking on business ethics, and are of relevance for today’s industrialising economies as they attempt to establish themselves in international markets. Janet Hunter is Saji Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics, UK. She has published widely on the economic and social history of modern Japan, and is currently researching on concepts of ethical business practice in developing economies such as Japan, and the economic impact of the 1923 earthquake.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Credit, Speculation, Legislation and Reputation: the Evolution of the Discourse on Commercial Morality in England and Beyond -- Chapter 2. Deceit, Piracy and Unfair Competition: Western Perceptions of the Level of Commercial Morality in Japan -- Chapter 3 – National Interest, Reputation and Economic Development in an ‘Infant’ Country: the Japanese Response to Western Criticisms -- Conclusion -- .
  note: by Janet Hunter.
  subject:
    topic: Business ethics
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Asia
    topic: Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: Business Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Business Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Asian Economics
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  classification: HC
  classification: 330.9
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
  identifier: 9781137586827
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58682-7
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    record creation date: 160709
    record change date: 20160709131314.0
    record identifier: 978-1-137-58682-7