Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era : Between External Shocks and Internal Evolution

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Managing in a Low Growth Era-The End of Managerial Idiosyncrasies?Japanese Management Practices in Historical Perspective -- Section 1 Structure, Strategy and Internationalization -- I Externalization of Organizations and the Dual Governance Structure -- II Role of Inter-organizational Networks: The Case of Japanese Corporate Groups -- Commentary: Externalization and Inter-organizational Networks. How Globalization Transforms the Japanese Model -- III Modes of Corporate Internationalization: Japanese FDI Strategies in Asia-Pacific -- IV Japanese Companies in Europe: Their Strategies and Management Practices -- Commentary -- Section 2 Corporate Governance and Control -- V Presidential Turnover and Performance in the Japanese Firm: The Evolution and Change of the Contingent Governance Structure under the Main Bank System -- VI Corporate Pension Schemes, Corporate Pension Governance, and State (De-) Regulation in Japan -- VII After Quasi-LBO Discipline: A Historical Reflection on Japanese Corporate Governance -- Commentary: From Voice to Exit? Corporate Finance Management and Corporate Governance -- Section 3 Industrial Organization -- VIII Recession and Globalization: What Future for Japanese Industrial Keiretsu? -- IX A Changing Image of Japanese Small Entrepreneurs -- Commentary: A New Step in the Evolution of Japanese Industrial Networks? -- Section 4 Human Resource Management -- X Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms Undergoing Transition: A Hierarchical Approach -- Commentary -- XI Limits and Latitude of Labour Adjustment Strategies in Japanese Companies -- Commentary -- XII Flexible Employment in Japanese Retailing: Toward a Just-in-time Employment Management -- Commentary: Flexible Employment in Japanese Retailing: Comparisons with Canada and Questions Concerning the Segmentation Theory -- Section 5 Innovation and Technology Management -- XIII Japanese Corporate R&D in the 1990s: Change and Continuity -- Commentary: Japanese R&D Management Practices: The Globalization Challenge -- XIV The Phase Variety of Product Systems and System-Based Differentiation: An Alternative View on Organizational Capabilities of the Japanese Firm for Product Innovation -- Commentary: System-Based Differentiation in Japanese Firms. Comments from a German Perspective -- Section 6 Change and Continuity: On the Transformation of the Japanese Management System -- XV Transformation of the Japanese Management System: A Contingency View -- XVI Will Japanese and French “Exceptionalisms” Vanish? The Convergence Hypothesis Reconsidered -- The Authors.

10.1007/978-3-642-58257-8 [DOI]

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