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Legal Structure, Business Organisations and Lobbying: The JapanesePublishing Sector, 1990-2001

Takahiro Endo
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Takahiro Endo: Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University, Japan

No DP2015-19, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: How did incumbents in Japanese publishing maintain resale price maintenance (RPM)? This article sheds light on the inter- and intra-industrial structure that enabled the protection of RPM, or the fixed price system, amid the country-wide liberalisation in the 1990s. By analysing textual data including governmental reports, trade papers in publishing and leaflets adopted for lobbying, the critical decade was reconstructed. It addresses a scarcity of business history literature about the link between RPM and business organisations, particularly concerning lobbying.

Keywords: lobbying; publishing; Resale Price Maintenance; theorisation; industrial structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2015-04, Revised 2017-03
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