'A munition steel company and Anglo Japanese relations before and after the First World War. The corporate governance of the Japan Steel Works ...' in J E Hunter & S Sugiyama (eds), History of Anglo Japanese Relations, 1600-2000. Volume 4. Economic and business relations

Details:

Author(s) Nagura, Bunji
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2002
Pages pp156-82
Publisher Palgrave
Place Published Basingstoke

Topics:

Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
Name Corporate governance
Name Joint ventures & other co-operative modes

Countries:

Japan

Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

Deals with technology transfer into Japan via joint ventures, etc, in which Japanese businesses held control and the mechanism through which this was achieved with special reference to the 1907 joint venture of Japan Steel Works [KK Nihon Seikosho] in which Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd and Vickers Son & Maxim Ltd were shareholders with Hokkaido Tanko Kisen Co; the issues of corporate governance involved