Hashino, Tomoko; Otsuka, Keijiro - Faculty of Economics, Kobe University - 2011
This study finds that the process of evolutionary development of the Kiryu weaving district in Japan from 1895 to 1930 can be divided into the two phases, i.e., Smithian growth based on the inter-firm division of labor using hand looms and Schumpeterian development based on factory system using...