ASIA.I.O.: Financing and Employment Adjustment: Enterprise Consolidation in Japan, 1945-49

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Name: Jae-Won Sun
Email: jsun@fas.harvard.edu
Institution: Harvard University

Co-author: none

Title: Financing and Employment Adjustment: Enterprise Consolidation
in Japan, 1945-49

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Language: English and Japanese

Abstract:
In this paper, I will examine the relationship between the government
and business in the process of enterprise consolidation in Japan
during the period of its postwar reconstruction from 1945 to 1949.
The enterprise consolidation was the primary factor that enabled
businesses to thrive in the period of rapid economic growth from
1950s to the early 1970s. Previous studies have focused on the role
of the US Occupation and have overlooked the fact that the Japanese
government played a decisive role in the process of enterprise
consolidation through the Policy of Enterprise Consolidation for
Reconstruction (the ECR policy). Moreover, the corporations availed
themselves of the ECR policy for resolving the two contemporary
problems: the shortage of funds and the surplus of company employees.

Bibliography: Sun, Jae-Won. "Financing and Employment Adjustment:
Enterprise Consolidation in Japan, 1945-49." Manuscript, Harvard
University, 2001.

Subject: B
Geographical Area: 2
Country/Region: Japan
Time Period: 9

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