Chapter 1 Introduction — Comparative Perspectives on Globalization: Historical Reflections on British and Japanese Enterprises

Chapter 2 An Empire of Goods? Groceries in Eighteenth-Century England

Chapter 3 Globalization and Voluntary Consensus Standardization in the British Wire Industry, 1880

Chapter 4 The City of London, British Ethnic and National Identities, and Investment Decisions in the Anglophone New World, 1860–1914

Chapter 5 The Genesis of Modern Management of Technology: The Case of the Meiji Cotton Spinning Sector in Globalization, 1880s–1890s

Chapter 6 Globalization and Family Business: The Renewal of Idemitsu Kosan, 1990s–2000s

Chapter 7 Jute, Firm’s Survival, and British Industrial Policy: Government Action under Globalization

Chapter 9 The Pressures of Globalization in Retail: The Path of Japanese Department Stores, 1930s–1980s

Chapter 10 Globalization and Change in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990–2010

Chapter 11 The UK Pharmaceutical Industry: Challenges in an Era of Globalization