Table of Contents

Policy Implications and Overview - Developing Theory from Practice: A Methodological Approach - Relational Access versus the Western Economic Paradigm - Origins of the Japanese Firm and Interfirm Networks - Japanese Governance Structures in the Postwar Era: Industrial Groups and their Main Banks - The Main Bank Relationship: Tatemae or Honne , 'Stylized Facts' or Real Facts? - Bank versus Firm: Triangulating the Data - Conclusion: Relational Access and the Main Bank System in Perspective

Reviews

'A breakthrough work that overturns current theories of Japan's keiretsu, corporate groups, and its main bank system...An excellent study powerfully illuminating the realities of present-day Japan.' - Professor Hiroshi Okumura, Chuo University