The Contest for Japan's Economic Future Entrepreneurs vs Corporate Giants

by Katz, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780197675106
• ISBN10: 0197675107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-12-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Richard Katz is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, as well as a Special Correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai. The Contest For Japan's Economic Future is his third book and, like his first two, will also be published in Japanese. His two previous books were Japan: The System That Soured--The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle (1998) and Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (2003).

For two decades, he published a monthly newsletter on Japan called "The Oriental Economist Report." Now he publishes a free blog called "Japan Economy Watch." His essays and opeds have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The International Economy. He's testified several times to Congressional committees.

He also taught about Japan's economy as an adjunct lecturer at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at New York University. He received his M.A. in Economics from New York University in 1996

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Rise and Fall of Japanese Entrepreneurship
Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship: From Effervescence to Rigidity
Chapter 2: Analog Mindset in a Digital World
Part II: Japan's Recover Requires More Gazelles
Chapter 3: The Need for a Productive Revolution
Chapter 4: Big Company Disease: They Can't See the Gorilla
Chapter 5: Gazelles-A Keystone Species For Productivity
Chapter 6: Abenomics: A Tale of Lost Opportunities
Part III: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur?
Chapter 7: Risk-Averse Culture or Risk vs Reward?
Chapter 8: Who Doesn't Get to Become an Entrepreneur?
Chapter 9: Corporate Intrapreneurship Breeds Entrepreneurs
Chapter 10: Universities as Entrepreneurial Communities
Part IV: Overcoming the Barriers to Gazelles' Growth
Chapter 11: Overcoming the Recruitment Obstacle
Chapter 12: Overcoming the Digital Divide and R&D Gap
Chapter 13: Finance for New Firms
Chapter 14: The Butterfly Effect in Finding Customers
Chapter 15: The Importance of Being Global
Part V: The Politics of Reform
Chapter 16: The Values of Japan's Postwar Political Economy
Chapter 17: Flexicurity: A Third Way
Chapter 18: A Political Scenario for Successful Reform
Chapter 19: Japan Can Do it, But Will it?
Acknowledgments