Prices, Quality and Trust Inter-Firm Relations in Britain and Japan

Long-term, close trading relations based on trust have come to be regarded as a key to management, while the arm's length and adversarial commercial bargain has fallen out of favour. This book examines these contrasting approaches, and the link between them and corporate performance, through a study of the electronics industry in Britain and Japan. Offering a unique integration of multi-disciplinary theorising and original comparative empirical work, it will be of use to those interested in the nature of the firm, and of the comparative economic performance in Japan and Britain.Sako, Mari is the author of 'Prices, Quality and Trust Inter-Firm Relations in Britain and Japan' with ISBN 9780521413862 and ISBN 0521413869.