Course Outline for M. Phil Course: Business Organisation and Management in Japan

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Importance of Japan as a Global/Regional Economic Power
2. Economic Strategies from Tokugawa period to WW II
3. Social Models and Social Mechanism of Japan – Japan as a Social Network
4. How Japan`s Ability to Adapt Affects Structural Change
5. The Alliance between Politics, Business and Bureaucracy
6. Role of MITI\METI in general Economic Policy formulation and implementation
7. Economic Development up to the end of 1970s
8. The importance of 1980s and 1990s to Japanese economy
9. The Role and Structure of Zaibatsu and Keiretsu
10. Japanese SOGO SOSHAS - MNCs
11. Transformation of Industrial Structure 1965-2000 and Impact on Trade, Investment and Technology Transfer
12. New Economy Industries and Japan
13. Explaining Recession, Reforms and Still Slow Recovery
14. The political Economy of Policy Making and Implementation : Industrialisation, Corporate Performances and Commercial Policy of Japan
15. Comments on East Asian Miracle and Development Model :Flying Gheese Model
16. Japan`s Economic Relations with the US, EU, HPAEs
17. Dynamics of India-Japan Economic Relations
18. Japan and Multilateral Institutions
19. The Impact and Challenge of Globalisation : Globalising Agents,  Norms and Japan Assuming Global Responsibilities
20. How Japan may change between  2006 – 2016.
21. Sum up

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