User talk:VsevolodKrolikov/Ronald P. Dore

In his 1958 book Life in a Tokyo ward he analysed the differences between the Yamanote and Shitamachi regions of Tokyo.

In his pioneering comparative study of employment relations and factory organization 1973 book British Factory, Japanese factory

Land Reform in Japan (1959)

His 1986 book, Flexible Rigidities, further explored the relationships across firms and between firms and governments in a comparative context.

His 1983 article on relational contracting in the British Journal of Sociology (“Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism”) has had a major impact in the social science of economic relationships, including work in IB on alliances, and has been reprinted in five different volumes (including one edited by Peter Buckley in 1996)

his 2000 book, Stock Market Capitalism, Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the Anglo-Saxons

In the 1980s, when Japanese firms were changing the nature of competition in international business, the work of British sociologist Ronald Dore was an invaluable resource for IB scholars seeking to understand Japanese business firms and the environment from which they were expanding. He has built on his extensive research in the field of comparative business systems to become a scholarly and skeptical analyst of some of key issues in the globalization debates of the last decade and a half.

He is an outstanding scholar whose deep understanding of the empirical phenomena he studies and ability to build on it to develop theoretical contributions are highly respected not only by sociologists but also by economists, anthropologists, historians, and comparative business systems scholars. Ronald Dore’s many contributions exemplify the deep pool of scholarship on individual societies that illuminates the context of international business research.