Comparative Responses to Globalization

1. Introduction — Comparative Perspectives on Globalization: Historical Reflections on British and Japanese Enterprises
Maki Umemura

2. An Empire of Goods? Groceries in Eighteenth-Century England
Jon Stobart

3. Globalization and Voluntary Consensus Standardization in the British Wire Industry, 1880
Aashish Velkar

4. The City of London, British Ethnic and National Identities, and Investment Decisions in the Anglophone New World, 1860–1914
Andrew Smith

5. The Genesis of Modern Management of Technology: The Case of the Meiji Cotton Spinning Sector in Globalization, 1880s–1890s
Eugene Choi

6. Globalization and Family Business: The Renewal of Idemitsu Kosan, 1990s–2000s
Minoru Shimamoto

7. Jute, Firm’s Survival, and British Industrial Policy: Government Action under Globalization
Carlo Morelli

8. Emerging Market Strategies in Compact Vehicles: The Case of Japanese Automakers
Hiromi Shioji

9. The Pressures of Globalization in Retail: The Path of Japanese Department Stores, 1930s–1980s
Rika Fujioka

10. Globalization and Change in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990–2010
Maki Umemura

11. The UK Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges in an Era of Globalization
Judy Slinn

Keywords: Business and Management, International Business, Emerging Markets/Globalization, Economic History, Economics, general, Globalization, International Economics