Regional Development Through Ecological Business - Unique Cases in Japanese Rural Regions

Informationen zum Autor Makoto Hirano has received anMBA degreefrom Temple University in US and aPhDin International Businessfrom Waseda University in Japan. Forthe pastseven years he has been involved in research around regional development issues. He has visited more thantwo hundred enterprises and organizations in different regionsof the world in orderto studynew management models for contemporarybusiness related to the design ofsustainable regional communities andthe creation ofintangible assets through art. Zusammenfassung The book delivers refreshing insight on the vitalization of regional business management. It also illustrates many unique business case studies on how powerless rural regions without sufficient resources have managed. The book is very useful in providing what ecological business manners should be adopted for business sustainability and innovation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Literature Review 3. Research Framework 4. Mental Vitalization through Art 5. Creating Ecological Business 6. Regional Community as Business Platform 7. Sustainable Development through Re-designing Community 8. Globalization of Regional Communities 9. Practice of Regional Vitalization through Ecological Business 10. Summarized Discussions and Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Makoto Hirano, Hirano Makoto
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415705233
• ISBN: 978-0-415-70523-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Small businesses & self-employed, Economic theory & philosophy, Research & development management, Small businesses and self-employment, Business mathematics & systems, Economics of industrial organisation, Microeconomics, Economic theory and philosophy, Economics of industrial organization, Research and development management, Business mathematics and systems