Introduction / Tetsuji Okazaki and Masaki Nakabayashi -- The rise of the power-loom factory in the traditional silk-weaving district / Tomoko Hashino -- The registration system and the grade wage / Ryo Kambayashi -- Personnel management and the formation of modern business organisation / Naofumi Nakamura -- Determinants and effects of employing professional corporate executives : a case of cotton spinning companies in pre-war Japan / Tetsuji Okazaki -- Flexibility and diversity / Masaki Nakabayashi -- The development of dispersed production organization in the interwar period / Masayuki Tanimoto -- The evolution of organizational structure of the modern machinery industry in Japan / Kazuaki Kagami

1. Industrial organization (Economic theory)
2. Economic development
3. Japan -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
4. Electronic books.