Small Firms in the Japanese Economy From: Business History Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Autumn 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy. By D. H. Whittaker New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii + 238 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95. ISBN 0521581524.

D. H. Whittaker's Small Firms in the Japanese Economy is an outstanding work which presents a candid representation and assessment of the changing roles and significance of small firms in the Japanese economy through careful treatment of statistical data, extensive interviews with small firm owners and policy makers, and well-organized historical research. It is clear that Whittaker achieves his aim not "to ...

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