TY - BOOK AU - Miura,Atsushi AU - Lewis,Dana TI - The rise of sharing: fourth-stage consumer society in Japan SN - 9784924971387 U1 - 306.0952 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Japan PB - International House of Japan KW - Condiciones sociales KW - Economóa del consumo KW - historia KW - Japan KW - Comportamientos del consumidor KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Condiciones económicas N1 - Incluye tabla de contenido; The four stages of consumer society. -- An overview of consumer society in Japan. -- Second-stage to third-stage consumer society. -- Differences between second- and third-stage consumer society. -- Individualization and sophistication of demand. -- Evolving consumer psychology. N2 - After the postwar economic miracle and the drift of the Lost Decades, Japan stands at a crossroads. Faced with a shrinking and rapidly aging population and sobered by the wake-up call of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, the Japanese today are seeking new societal models to replace the ones that have carried them so far but are becoming increasingly irrelevant. This book documents the emergence of a new sharing society in Japan, and offers survival strategies for business in a people-centric, post-materialist economy ER -