History of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Japan

Takeo Kikkawa ()
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Date: 2023
ISBN: 978-981-19-9454-8
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: What Is Innovation?

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Ch 2 Overview I: Edo Period

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Ch 3 Case 1 Zen’emon Konoike: Successive Innovations Impacting the Nationwide Market

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Ch 4 Case 2 Takatoshi Mitsui: New Business Opportunities and the Retail Revolution

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Ch 5 Case 3 Genzaemon Nakai: A Regional Merchant Thriving on the National Stage

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Ch 6 Discussion Point 1: Early Modern or Pre-Modern?

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Ch 7 Overview 2: From Port Opening to Post Russo-Japanese War Period

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Ch 8 Case 4 Hikojiro Nakamigawa: Zaibatsu Reform by Salaried Managers

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Ch 9 Case 5 Yataro Iwasaki and Yanosuke Iwasaki: Formation of Zaibatsu by Owner Managers

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Ch 10 Case 6 Zenjiro Yasuda and Soichiro Asano: Zaibatsu Formation Through the Collaboration of Two Owner-Managers

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Ch 11 Case 7 Eiichi Shibusawa: Mobilization of Managerial Resources by an Investor-ManagerInvestor manager

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Ch 12 Discussion Point 2: How Did Japan’s Economy Manage to Take Off So Early? Conditions That Enabled the First Successful Industrialization Case Among Latecomer Nations

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Ch 13 Overview 3: World War I to the 1980s

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Ch 14 Case 8 Ichizo Kobayashi: A Leader in Urbanization Creates a New Industry

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Ch 15 Case 9 Yasuzaemon Matsunaga: Electrification Leader Establishes Private Sector-Led Public Utility Operations

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Ch 16 Case 10 Saburosuke Suzuki II: Commercialization of Exceptional Breakthrough Innovation

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Ch 17 Case 11 Kiichiro Toyoda: From Breakthrough to Incremental Innovations

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Ch 18 Case 12 Shitagau Noguchi and Yoshisuke Aikawa: Emergence of New Konzerns and Foray into the Continent

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Ch 19 Case 13 Sazo Idemitsu: From “Oil Merchant of the Continent” to “Hero of Native Oil Companies”

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Ch 20 Case 14 Yataro Nishiyama: Leader of Capital Investment Drives High Economic Growth

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Ch 21 Case 15 Konosuke Matsushita: Initiator of the “Consumer Revolution” Drives High Economic Growth

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Ch 22 Case 16 Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, Soichiro Honda, and Takeo Fujisawa: The Groundbreaking Nature of Sony and Honda Becoming Global Companies

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Ch 23 Case 17 Toshio Doko: The Sense of Crisis Harbored by the “Fine Physician of the Business World” and “Mr. Administrative Reform”

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Ch 24 Discussion Point 3: How Did Japan’s Economy Continuously Grow Over a Long Period? Catch-Up and Domestic Demand

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Ch 25 Overview 4: Japan Since the 1990s

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Ch 26 Case 18 Kazuo Inamori: Managerial Renewal by a Venture Manager

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Ch 27 Case 19 Toshifumi Suzuki: Convenience Store Innovations from Japan to the World

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Ch 28 Case 20 Tadashi Yanai and Masayoshi Son: Exceptional Challenges Undertaken by the Two Risk Takers

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Ch 29 Discussion Point 4: Why Did Japan’s Economy Slow Down? ICT Revolution and “Disruptive Innovation”

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Ch 30 Conclusion: Reviving Innovation—Requirements for the “Two-Front OperationTwo-front operation”

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