著者

北山 俊哉

出版者

関西学院大学

雑誌

法と政治 (ISSN:02880709)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.46, no.2, pp.287-320, 1995-06-30

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Until sometime in the postwar Japan, there was a phrase that Tokyo was the political capital and Osaka was the economic capital of Japan. This is no longer true since the economy of Tokyo area has acquired a dominant position not just in Japan but also in the world, while Osaka area's economic position has relatively declined. Why this has happened is the question that this paper attempts to answer. This article argues that the notion of "industrial order" explains the different developmental trajectories of the two regions. Industrial order consists of the particular mix of the industrial governance mechanisms-markets, corporate hierarchies, the modern state, the community, and the association. Tokyo area has successfully established the industrial order of "flexible mass production, " the main governance mechanisms of which are the market, hierarchies, and the community. Osaka area was not so successful in building the similar industrial order. This article also tries to demonstrate the establishment of particular industrial order in one region depends on the social and political process of the region as well as rational response which is assumed in the neo-classical economic model. I use the cases of sewing machines and camera industries to show how the establishment of the industrial order is constrained by the social and cultural resources of the regions.