Multinational companies from Japan : capabilities, competitiveness, and challenges
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Multinational companies from Japan : capabilities, competitiveness, and challenges
Routledge, 2016
- pbk.
Available at 18 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, from 1990 onwards, its multinational companies (MNCs) have faced new competitive challenges, and questions about the management practices on which they had built their initial success in global markets.
Japanese engagement in the international economy has undergone a number of phases. Historically, Japanese MNCs learnt from foreign companies, frequently through strategic alliances. After the post-war 'economic miracle', Japanese manufacturers in particular converted themselves into MNCs, transferred their home-grown capabilities to overseas subsidiaries, and made an impact on the world economy. But the period after 1990 marked declining Japanese competitiveness, and asked questions about the ability of Japanese MNCs to be more responsive and global in their strategies, organization, and capabilities. It has been argued that the established management practices of Japanese MNCs inhibited adaptation to recent demands of global competition.
This volume presents new case evidence on how Japanese MNCs have responded to the new challenges of the global market place, and it provides examples of how they have transformed strategies and competitive capabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.
Table of Contents
1. Japanese multinationals in the post-bubble era: new challenges and evolving capabilities 2. Global value chains and the lost competitiveness of the Japanese watch industry: an applied business history of Seiko since 1990 3. Do Japanese electronics firms still follow traditional vertical integration strategies? Evidence from the liquid crystal display industry 4. Strategic capabilities and the emergence of the global factory: Omron in China 5. Boundary-crossing and the localization of capabilities in a Japanese multinational firm 6. Do Japanese MNCs use expatriates to contain risk in Asian host countries? 7. Cross-national distance and insidership within networks: Japanese MNCs' ownership strategies in their overseas subsidiaries 8. Cultural determinants of alliance management capability - an analysis of Japanese MNCs in India 9. How have Japanese multinational companies changed? Competitiveness, management and subsidiaries
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