| Book |
Quiet politics and business power: Corporate control in Europe and Japan |
PD Culpepper |
2010 |
The rules governing hostile takeovers have been fiercely contested since the 1990s, but such struggles rarely took place in parliaments. This book studies these political battles in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. |
628 |
| Book |
Japan under construction: Corruption, politics, and public works |
B Woodall |
1996 |
In 1987, Japan excluded American firms from bidding on the multibillion-dollar New Kansai International Airport, sparking yet another trade dispute between the United States and Japan. The State Department, Congress, and the President himself were caught up in the dispute, which still smolders even after Congress passed a threatening resolution to retaliate. Scandal after scandal--both domestic and international--splashes across headlines in Japan, generating wave after wave of attempts at reform. Why is this industry so rife with bid-rigging, collusion, and pork-barrel politics? What are the political forces behind the industry? Brian Woodall answers these questions in this book, based on extensive research and over one hundred candid and revealing interviews with contractors, industry association officials, public works bureaucrats, elected politicians and aides, political party officials, journalists, and scholars. This inside view begins with a profile of the institutionalized system of bid-rigging in the public construction market. It explores the powerful positions of unelected bureaucrats, who are often hired by private-sector firms after retirement. Career politicians within the Liberal Democratic Party are revealed to use the construction industry to exploit party factions toward their own electoral ends. Recent events--the Sagawa affair and the massive "general contractors" (zenekon) scandal as well as the political reform movements that followed them--are examined in detail. Throughout, Brian Woodall illuminates the construction rift between Japan and the United States and demonstrates how international pressures were subverted within the shadowy domestic system. |
281 |
| Book |
Measuring judicial independence: The political economy of judging in Japan |
JM Ramseyer , EB Rasmusen |
2010 |
(abstract not available) |
279 |
| Journal Article |
Judicial independence in a civil law regime: the evidence from Japan |
JM Ramseyer , EB Rasmusen |
1997 |
Because the Japanese judiciary exclusively hires young and unproven jurists for its lower courts, it maintains elaborate career incentive structures. We use personnel data on 276 judges (every judge hired between 1961 and 1965) to explore the determinants of career success and test whether politicians manipulate those incentives. We find strong evidence that the system rewards the most productive judges, but little evidence of ongoing school cliques, and no evidence that the system favors judges who mediate over those who write opinions. We also find that even as late as the 1980s, those judges who joined a prominent leftist organization in the 1960s were still receiving less attractive jobs than their colleagues. Moreover, Judges who decided a case against the government incurred the risk that the government would punish them with less attractive posts. Finally, judges who declared unconstitutional a crucial section of the electoral law received less attractive posts than those who held it constitutional. |
187 |
| Journal Article |
The effect of corruption on Japanese foreign direct investment |
PA Voyer , PW Beamish |
2004 |
In an effort to reduce risk and uncertainty, we hypothesize that investors avoid countries where high corruption exists. We investigate this issue by examining the relationship of levels of perceived corruption on Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in both industrialized and emerging economies. The analysis presented utilizes a sample of 29,546 investments in 59 countries. Results suggest that in emerging nations, where comprehensive legal and regulatory frameworks do not exist to effectively curtail fraudulent activity, corruption serves to reduce FDI. Managers need to consider the level of perceived corruption in their assessment of any market prior to potential investment. |
187 |
| Journal Article |
Gift - giving in a modernizing Japan |
H Befu |
1968 |
(abstract not available) |
166 |
| Book |
Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Postwar Political Machine |
JM Schlesinger |
1997 |
The story of Japan's rise to economic power begins with the rise of Premier Kakuen Tanaka, a fiery populist who was brought down by financial scandal but who out of government became even more powerful and passed on his legacy, until a new populist reformer arrived. |
161 |
| Journal Article |
Who Cheats? Who Loots? Political Competition and Corruption in Japan, 1947–1993 |
B Nyblade & SR Reed |
2008 |
When do politicians resort to corrupt practices? This article distinguishes between two types of corruption by politicians: illegal acts for material gain (looting) and illegal acts for electoral gain (cheating). Looting generally involves a politician “selling” influence while cheating involves a politician “buying” votes. Individual‐level analyses of new data on financial scandals and election law violations in Japan show that the determinants of cheating differ from the determinants of looting. Most notably, political experience and electoral security increase the probability of looting, but electoral insecurity combined with intraparty competition increases the probability of cheating. |
148 |
| Journal Article |
Dango: Japan’s Price-Fixing Conspiracies. |
J McMillan |
1991 |
This paper addresses two questions about collusion in the Japanese construction industry. First, what mechanisms are used for enforcing the collusive agreement, for dividing the spoils, and for preventing the entry of new firms seeking a share of the collusive profits? Second, how much are prices raised as a result of the collusion? |
124 |
| Journal Article |
Tanaka Kakuei, Structural Corruption, and the Advent of Machine Politics in Japan. |
C Johnson |
1986 |
(abstract not available) |
123 |
| Journal Article |
Antitrust Enforcement in Japan |
H First |
1995 |
(abstract not available) |
120 |
| Journal Article |
National culture and ethical climates: A comparison of US and Japanese accounting firms |
KP Parboteeah , JB Cullen , B Victor , T Sakano |
2005 |
We investigated the effects of Japanese and U.S national cultures on ethical climates within accounting organizations. We hypothesized that national cultural differences would lead to the observation of different ethical climates. Results support the national culture hypothesis for the principled climates. However, contrary to expectations based on national culture arguments for egoism and benevolence, our findings suggest that key institutional factors, specifically the accounting institutional rules and regulations, lead to differences in ethical climates. |
112 |
| Journal Article |
Japanese cost management meets Sri Lankan politics: Disappearance and reappearance of bureaucratic management controls in a privatised utility |
D Wickramasinghe , T Hopper … |
2004 |
The Sri Lanka Telecommunications company was recently partially privatised and a major Japanese company became responsible for its management. Previously, it was a government department characterised by rule bound, bureaucratic management and political interventions into operational issues. The longitudinal study illustrates how a Japanese manager's charismatic and patrimonial leadership eliminated bureaucratic controls, brought new management controls and reward systems, and achieved some commercial success. However, some employees unsympathetic to the changes allied with politicians frustrated with their exclusion from organisational affairs to get the Japanese manager removed and restore formal bureaucracy. This was achieved not through direct intervention but largely through the politicians' control of the regulatory system. Conflicts between the two competing management control ideologies were profound and violent. The paper traces how modes of production and management accounting and controls in less developed countries are related, and are transformed in an unpredictable and often unexpected fashion due to cultural, economic, and political factors. |
102 |
| Book |
Gift -giving in Japan: Cash, connections, cosmologies |
K Rupp |
2003 |
(abstract not available) |
91 |
| Book |
Political bribery in Japan |
RH Mitchell |
1996 |
(abstract not available) |
90 |
| Journal Article |
Business ethics of Korean and Japanese managers |
CY Lee, H Yoshihara |
1997 |
This is a study of 288 Korean and 323 Japanese Business executives. The result indicates that, (1) the business executives believe basically in higher level business ethics, but (2) they occasionally have to make unethical business decisions which conflict with their personal values, because of prevailing business practices. (3) However, they think higher ethical standards is useful for long-term profit and for improving workers' attitudes, and the standards can be improved, and (4) to improve ethical standards, model setting by superiors is the most important and clear-cut company policies and code of ethics are essential. |
86 |
| Journal Article |
Japan's Dysfunctional Democracy: The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption : The Liberal Democratic Party and Structural Corruption |
RW Bowen, JJ Kassiola |
2016 |
This is a short, readable, and incisive study of the corrosive effects of corruption in one of the world's major liberal democracies. It explores the disconnect between democratic rule and undemocratic practices in Japan since the Second World War, with special attention to the corrupt practices of various prime ministers and the resulting sense of political cynicism and powerlessness among the general public. |
86 |
| Book |
Conflicts of interest and the future of medicine: the United States, France, and Japan |
MA Rodwin |
2011 |
(abstract not available) |
85 |
| Journal Article |
Pipelines of Pork: Japanese Politics and a Model of Local Opposition Party Failure. |
E Scheiner |
2005 |
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated Japanese politics since 1955, and the party’s even greater dominance of |
79 |
| Journal Article |
Governance structure and administrative corruption in Japan: An organizational network approach |
JW Choi |
2007 |
Traditional studies of the Japanese bureaucracy have emphasized effective governance through a close government–business nexus. Yet this network relation creates corruption, especially at a high level of administration. Adopting an organizational network approach, this article provides a critical analysis of the causality between network structures and administrative corruption. Examining financial and public works policies, this article finds that amakudari‐ and zoku‐driven network relationships, which have been reinforced by sociocultural bases, are vertically and exclusively structured and substantiate corruption in administration. Policy making on the basis of such network relations not only results in mismanagement in administration and the distortion of the market disciplines but also delegitimizes the governance system by destroying public trust in government. This article suggests that bringing greater heterogeneity and citizen participation to administration through diversity management and e‐government would reduce administrative corruption in Japanese governance. |
72 |
| Journal Article |
Perceptions of ethical work climate and person– organization fit among retail employees in Japan and the US: A cross-cultural scale validation |
TB Lopez, BJ Babin , C Chung |
2009 |
International retailers can only be successful if they understand similarities and differences between cultures. This study compares retail employees' perceptions of ethical work climate and person–organization fit in the U.S. with those of the same employee type in Japan. The results can help retailers understand employee perceptions of their relationship with the firm. An important aspect of this research involves testing the cross-cultural validity of the ethical work climate (EWC) and person–organization fit (POF) scales. Findings suggest that these scales are valid in both different national contexts and can also be used to compare differences between the cultures. Significant differences were noted in the EWC and POF between retail employees in Japan and the U.S. The relationship between EWC and POF varies significantly for employees in Japan and the U.S. |
70 |
| Journal Article |
Whistle-blowing: A cross-cultural comparison of ethical perceptions of US and Japanese accounting students |
RG Brody , JM Coulter… |
1998 |
(abstract not available) |
69 |
| Journal Article |
Information, Institutions, and Extortion in Japan and the United States: Making Sense of Sokaiya Racketeers |
MD West |
1998 |
(abstract not available) |
68 |
| Journal Article |
A Survey Study of Japanese Managers' Views of Business Ethics |
C Nakano |
1997 |
In the United States, a series of survey studies have been done to examine corporate managers' views of business ethics and various business practices (Baumhart, 1961; Brenner and Molander, 1977; Vitell and Festervand, 1987). This paper is a replication study conducted in Japan of those American studies. The results of the study suggest that Japanese managers tend to be more situational in their ethical orientation than Americans. The results also show that the company policy on ethics is the most important factor influencing Japanese managers' ethical decisions. |
65 |
| Chapter |
Punishing corruption: The response of the Japanese electorate to scandals. |
SR Reed |
1999 |
(abstract not available) |
64 |
