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Dore, Ronald. Stock Market Capitalism: Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Table of contents
Abstract
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| 1. Introduction | 1 |
| Financialization | 2 |
| Pensions and productivism | 6 |
| Shareholder value | 9 |
| The capitalist-manager's counter-revolution | 12 |
| Come off it. Relax! | 14 |
| The Goldilocks economy as the model for Japan | 17 |
| ... and Germany | 18 |
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| Part I. The Original Japanese Model |
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| 2. A Society of Long-Term Commitments | 23 |
| The firm | 23 |
| The facilitating environment | 32 |
| Relational trading | 35 |
| The role of government | 41 |
| A system? | 45 |
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| Part II. Change and Controversy in Japan |
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| 3. Sources of Change | 51 |
| Changed economic parameters | 51 |
| Renewed force of the American model | 52 |
| Long-term value change | 57 |
| Gender and the family | 59 |
| Class and equality | 63 |
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| 4. Corporate Governance: From the Employee-Favouring
Firm to the Shareholder-Favouring Firm | 71 |
| The context | 71 |
| The arguments for change | 73 |
| Legislative changes | 95 |
| Changing pressures: changing practices | 104 |
| Defence of the employ ее-favouring firm? | 128 |
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| 5. Trading Relations | 133 |
| Factors likely to erode relational trading practices | 134 |
| Reinforcement? | 136 |
| Observed trends in behaviour | 137 |
| Enterprise groups | 141 |
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| 6. The Industry as Community: The Competition/Cooperation
Balance among Competitors | 143 |
| Cooperation and conspiracy: public contracting |
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| 'My firm first' | 146 |
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| 7. The Role of Government in the Economy | 156 |
| The background to the deregulation drive | 156 |
| The arguments | 159 |
| Actual changes | 162 |
| The outlook for the active state | 163 |
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| Part III. German Parallels |
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| 8. Finanzplatz Deutschland | 171 |
| German finance | 172 |
| Signs of change | 176 |
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| 9. The Co-determined Firm | 182 |
| Attack and defence | 187 |
| Evolutionary change: managerial strategy | 191 |
| Evolutionary change: industrial relations | 195 |
| What is at stake? | 206 |
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| 10. The Organized Community | 207 |
| Falling apart? | 210 |
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| Part IV. Conclusion |
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| 11. Nice Guys Finish Last? | 219 |
| Efficient? Competitive? | 225 |
| Capital: patient or flighty? | 227 |
| The cyclical factors | 228 |
| Business strategy: monopoly power | 229 |
| Skills, cultures, and organizations | 230 |
| Where ideas and capital meet | 233 |
| Industrial policy? | 237 |
| Intellectual resources | 238 |
| Conclusion? | 239 |
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| Notes | 240 |
| Index | 253 |
