Evaluating business risks becomes especially precarious in volatile information-poor emerging markets where issue-based isolated models of risk assessment no longer seem to apply. In particular, multinational corporations (referred to as "multinationals") seem not to use more established models...

Like their counterparts in Europe, the Japanese car manufacturers are facing recession. The Japanese have also been forced to rethink their previously successful global strategies. Frank-Jürgen Richter and Yukihiro Wakuta explore the Japanese problems and compare the car manufacturers'...