Аннотация:The Japanese firm as a system of attributes, Aoki learning and incentive systems in Japanese industry, Koike different quality paradigms and their implications for organizational learning, Cole training, productivity and quality control in Japanese multinational companies, Sako co-ordination between production and distribution in a globalizing network of firms, Asanuma the evolution of Japan's industrial research and development, Westney R&D organization in Japanese and American semi-condutor firms, Okimoto and Nishi SME's, entry barriers, and strategic alliances, Whittaker Japanese human resource management for the viewpoint of incentive theory, Itoh co-ordination, specialization, and incentives in product development organization, Itoh the economic role of corporate grouping and the main bank system, Hoshi interlocking shareholdings and corporate governance in Japan the Japanese firm under the wartime planned economy, Okazaki equality-efficiency trade-offs - Japanese perceptions and choices, Dore