Industrial structure and medium and small enterprises

Abstract

"The economic structure of Japan does not have a single homogeneous structure as its counterparts in advanced Western countries do. It consists of the so-called dual structures of two kinds. In other words, it is divided into a modernized field and another which has not yet been modernized. And it is considered that there exists a considerably large gap between these two fields. The enterprises in the modernized field are certainly not so inferior to those in other advanced countries. In a sharp contrast with this field, there exists widely another field - medium & small-scale enterprise and small business which is not modernized and of a preceding- period type. While the modernized field is progressing rapidly, the unmodernized field remains stagnant. stagnation of this unmodernized field may be the fundamental cause of the stagnant employment structure" (Arisawa, 1957)