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- Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis - Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity - Information, Incentives and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy - The Co-operative Game Theory of the Firm - Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity - Communities and Markets in Economic Development - The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development - The Japanese Main Bank System - The Japanese Firm	The Japanese Firm Edited by Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994 Table of Contents Introduction   Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore   1.  The Japanese Firm as a System of Attributes: A Survey and Research Agenda Masahiko Aoki   2.  Learning and Incentive Systems in Japanese Industry Kazuo Koike   3.  Different Quality Paradigms and their Implications for Organizational Learning Robert E. Cole   4.  Training, Productivity, and Quality Control in Japanese Multinational Companies Mari Sako   5.  Co-ordination between Production and Distribution in a Globalizing Network of Firms: Assessing Flexibility Achieved in the Japanese Automobile Industry Banri Asanuma   6.  The Evolution of Japan's Industrial Research and Development D. Eleanor Westney   7.  R&D Organization in Japanese and American Semiconductor Firms Daniel I. Okimoto and Yoshio Nishi   8.  SMEs, Entry Barriers, and 'Strategic Alliances' D. Hugh Whittaker   9.  Japanese Human Resource Management from the Viewpoint of Incentive Theory Hideshi Itoh   10.  Co-ordination, Specialization, and Incentives in Product Development Organization Hideshi Itoh   11.  The Economic Role of Corporate Grouping and the Main Bank System Takeo Hoshi   12.  Interlocking Shareholdings and Corporate Governance in Japan Paul Sheard   13.  The Japanese Firm under the Wartime Planned Economy Tetsuji Okazaki   14.  Equality-Efficiency Trade-offs: Japanese Perceptions and Choices Ronald Dore