Focuses on key business issues facing East Asia that corporations and governments should understand, including regionalization initiatives, obstacles to continued rapid growth in China, aging and pension reform, and the changing security environment.

This book will help Canadian managers to better understand: the strategies of Japanese multinationals and other East Asian firms and governments, the linkages between trade and investment, and the nature of the different business systems.

How is the Chinese economy making the transition from imitation to innovation as the source of sustained long-term growth? We address this question using the evolutionary approach to growth in which institutions support technical advance and enterprises develop capabilities to learn and...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the 2009 Carleton Library Edition -- Preface to the 1970 Carleton Library Edition -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Antecedents of the Depression of the Thirties -- 3 The Downswing from 1929 to 1933 -- 4 The Beginning of Recovery, 1932-3 -- 5 The Recovery from...

This book will help Canadian managers to better understand: the strategies of Japanese multinationals and other East Asian firms and governments, the linkages between trade and investment, and the nature of the different business systems