CIRJE-J-120. Okazaki, Tetsuji and Masaki Nakabayashi, "History of Production Organizations", October 2004.

Based on the survey of the literature on production organizations in the field of economic history, business history and economics, we discuss the framework for a historical research on production organizations. Also, we analyze the choice of production organizations between the putting-out system and the factory, using the prefecture level panel data of the weavings industry in pre-war Japan.