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

• Main Author: Hunter, Janet (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Subjects: 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...