Contracting in Japan: The Bargains People Make When Information Is Costly, Commitment Is Hard, Friendships Are Unstable, and Suing Is Not Wo

by J. Mark Ramseyer

Economic arrangements, Ramseyer writes, are structured and implemented with the intent and hope that they will be carried out with 'care, intelligence, discretion, and effort.' Yet entrepreneurs work with partial information about the products, and people, they are dealing with. Contracting in Japan illustrates this by examining five sets of negotiations and unusual contractual arrangements among non-specialist businessmen, and women, in Japan. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009215728
• ISBN13: 9781009215725
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"