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The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: Comparative Institutional Analysis

Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara

Print publication date: 1998

Print ISBN-13: 9780198294917

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2007

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198294917.001.0001

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Unintended Fit: Organizational Evolution and Government Design of Institutions in Japan

Unintended Fit: Organizational Evolution and Government Design of Institutions in Japan

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(p.233) 8 Unintended Fit: Organizational Evolution and Government Design of Institutions in Japan
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The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development
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Masahiko Aoki (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198294917.003.0008

This chapter discusses nanoscopic, intra-organizational coordination. It argues that the spontaneous order of cross-task coordination based on information sharing within the firm is an important source of total factor productivity growth in postwar Japan. The institutional apparatus that the government originally designed for centralized control of wartime production did not work as intended, but evolved into a supporting framework for decentralized private coordination following democratic transformation during postwar reform.

Keywords:   coordination, postwar reform, industrial policy, institutional reform

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