Nearly two decades ago Hitoshi Misonou published his famous article "Are the General Trading Firms Declining Like the Setting Sun?" [SÅgÅ ShÅsha wa ShayÅ de Aruka] (1961), which triggered years of active debates in the literature on uSÅgÅ ShÅsha/u or general trading firms. In this article...

What sorts of effects do the differences in firms' corporate strategies have on their economic performance (profitability, growth, etc.)? Let us pose this very interesting question from the point of view of an analysis of corporate strategies that treats diversification as the main defining...

A key point in the success of Japan's overseas production is the way in which the production system of the Japanese firms is transferred to the plants overseas.