1. Introduction: historical background and focus of this book -- 2. Introduction, installation, and dissemination of the Scientific Management in Japan. 3 -- The acceptance of Human Relations Theory in Japan -- 4. Examining the impact of Chester Barnard’s organization theory in Japan -- 5....

Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century...

We provide first evidence for the long-run causal impact that Chinese imports to European regions had on voting outcomes and revisit earlier estimates of the short-run impact for a methodological reason. The fringes of the political spectrum gained ground many years after the China shock...