Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and East Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. A Critical View of Japan as an Economic Power

   • Takafusa Nakamura

   Pages 1-6

3. Germany’s Economic Strength and Integration Willingness

   • Wim Kösters

   Pages 7-21

4. Key Factors for Japan’s High Rate of Economic Growth

   • Tokue Shibata

   Pages 23-33

5. The Shift from a Net Capital Exporter to a Net Capital Importer — The Case of Germany —

   • Christian Watrin, Malte Krüger

   Pages 35-44

6. The Japanese Labor Market Today

   • Kazuaki Tezuka

   Pages 45-51

7. Germany’s Contribution to the Development of Labor Markets in Eastern Europe

   • Artur Woll

   Pages 53-63

8. Remarks Concerning the Transfer of Managerial and Organizational Methods to Eastern Europe: Opportunities and Problems for Japan

   • Haruo Oba

   Pages 65-77

9. Transferring Managerial and Organizational Methods to Eastern Europe

   • Georg Schreyögg

   Pages 79-90

10. German Unification and the Effects on Central and Eastern Europe

    • Hisashi Watanabe

    Pages 91-111

11. The Economic Effects of German Reunification on West and East Europe

    • Willy Kraus

    Pages 113-130

12. Effects of Growing Economic Integration in East Asia on Japan’s Economy

    • Wolfgang Klenner

    Pages 131-142

The economic transfonnation taking place in Eastern Europe and Asia is in particular a challenge for Japan and Gennany, because these two states as the immediate neighbors of the developing regions are directly affected and also because they are the strongest economic powers in their regions and have the necessary potential to influence developments there. Japan and Gennany are affected in many ways, both positively and negatively. Should the economic and social transformation run into difficulties, leading to economic and political chaos, perhaps even to armed conflicts, then economy and social fabric of the prosperous neighbors would doubtlessly suffer. In the past, Japan and the South-East Asian region have already experienced how economic problems in China caused millions of Chinese to seek their fortunes in other countries. An economic and political destabilization of China would today probably have even greater effects on migration flows. Similar effects can be expected in Europe, if the transfonnation process in Eastern Europe should fail. But even less dramatic developments in Eastern Europe and East Asia can have deleterious consequences for Gennany and Japan. Both nations are linked closely to the transfonning economies near them, though at a fairly low level. A reduction in trade with them, a refusal to service debts and other economic frictions ensuing out of economic and political troubles would of necessity hamper the prosperity of Japan and Gennany. A successful transfonnation process would without doubt benefit all economic partners to a considerable extent.

• Deutschland's Wirtschaft
• East Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Economic Transformation
• Germany's Economy
• Japan
• Japan's Economy
• Japan's Wirtschaft
• Ostasien
• Osteuropa
• economic integration
• Ökonomische Umwandlung

• Lehrstuhl für allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und betriebswirtschaftliche Finanzierungslehre, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

  Herbert Hax

• Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften, Sektion Wirtschaft Ostasiens, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  Wolfgang Klenner, Willi Kraus

• Tokyo University, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Tomoo Matsuda

• Tokyo University, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Takafusa Nakamura

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