Until around 1980 Japanese companies occupied a predominant position in Asia. In terms of the scale of operation, level of technology and international competitiveness, they surpassed local Asian companies. They enjoyed number one position. International business of Japanese companies in Asia...

Strategy of international business of Japanese manufacturing companies has drastically changed for the last half century. Export long occupied central position in the international business strategy. In 1985 the Plaza Accord was reached and sharp appreciation of Japanese yen started. And...

To explore a new style of Chinese management by the case study of Haier is the objective of this paper. Haier is the largest consumer electronics company in China. Wages of workers are only based on piece rate and determined by the rightly done jobs and the defects in their jobs. The evaluation...

Does a firm engage in a joint venture with a technologically advanced foreign partner to complement or substitute investments in its own technological capabilities? We address this question in a comparative study of 222 Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers and Sino-foreign joint ventures. A...

In this paper we conduct an exploratory investigation of how the management of R&D activities are viewed from the perspective of the subsidiary and examine how this and the relationship between the subsidiary and the parent effects the learning process of the multinational enterprise. We find...

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.