Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy
Subtitle: Why Japan Can't Reform
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781403916556
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; International business; Macroeconomics; Ownership & organization of enterprises; Government business enterprises; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Japan; Industrial policy; Industries - General; International - Economics; Business & Economics / Economics / International; Bureaucracy; Corporations, Government; Government business enterprise
First sentence: This book reveals how the Japanese ministries can exploit special corporations in order to intensify their administrative power over industries and local governments, and to perpetuate the interest of elite civil servants by facilitating the migration to post-retirement positions in the private sector.