'Deficient in Commercial Morality'? Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hunter, Janet (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Θέματα: Business ethics.; Globalization.; Economic history.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Economic History.; Business Ethics.; Asian Economics.

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 n...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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
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