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The power to compete : an economist and an entrepreneur on revitalizing Japan in the global economy /
Father and son - entrepreneur and economist - search for Japan's economic cure The Power to Compete tackles the issues central to the prosperity of Japan - and the world - in search of a cure for the ""Japan Disease."" As founder and CEO of Rakuten, one of the world's l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Japan again
- Chapter 1. The power to innovate. Japan again ; The keys to revitalizing Japan ; Keidanren's raison d'être ; The nature of innovation ; Schumpeter's contribution ; Building infrastructure ; Business innovation ; Summary
- Chapter 2. The power to operate. Workforce fluidity ; Privatization ; Lifetime employment ; Escaping lifetime employment ; Immigration problems ; Why English needs to be a common language in Japan ; Growing the population ; Summary
- Chapter 3. The power in questioning abenomics ; History of abenomics ; Independence in finance ; The optimal inflation rate ; Halting the rise of interest rates ; What to do about our 1-quadrillion-yen debt ; The pros and cons of abenomics ; Summary
- Chapter 4. The power of the low-cost state ; The high cost of governance ; How to reform the high-cost structure ; Addressing the Japanese disease ; The United States and individualism ; The impotent bureaucracy ; Internationalizing the bureaucracy ; Creating think tanks ; Political appointees ; What it will take to improve the bureaucracy ; Summary
- Chapter 5. The power to succeed overseas. The decline in the number of students studying abroad ; Escaping from the Galapagos effect ; The future of journalism ; Media in the Internet era ; The importance of liberal arts ; Ryoichi Mikitani's experiences abroad ; Summary
- Chapter 6. The power to educate. Uniform Japanese education ; The education of the Mikitani family ; What the education system needs ; Higher education ; What people study in university ; The founding of Rakuten ; The evaluation system for teachers ; The need for strategy in the Japanese education system ; Summary
- Chapter 7. The power to build Brand Japan. Brand power ; The demonstration effect ; Brand value at the national level ; Foreign nationals working in Japan ; Making Japan attractive to foreign nationals ; Japan and the trans-Pacific partnership ; Summary
- Conclusion. What is the power to compete? ; Japan uniquely incorporates and interprets cultures ; Competitiveness as a platform ; The global logistics revolution ; Summary ; Epilogue ; Acknowledgments ; Index ; EULA.