The internationalization strategies of family businesses versus nonfamily businesses remain a neglected area of study. This investigation uses a sample of 759 Japanese subsidiaries worldwide that can be identified as family businesses or nonfamily businesses to reveal two key results. First,...

As widely documented in academic literature, family businesses perform better and enjoy a sounder financial structure than non-family businesses, a trend that applies to Japan as well, which is the context of this paper. Therefore, conventional wisdom suggests that family businesses should...

Since the mid-eighties, attention both of professionals and academics has been drawn on the " Family Business " phenomenon". Research on the family companies has known a significant renewal of interest, mostly in the Anglo-Saxon world. Recently, the economic and financial press echoed this...

Multinational companies use a wide range of mechanisms to keep control over a subsidiary abroad such as the share of capital in the case of international joint ventures, expatriation, active participation in the board of directors, staffing key management positions, training and socialization of...

FDI to Japan and Trade Flows: A Comparison of BRICs, Asian Tigers and Developed Countries

Japon : pistes pour l'analyse des conséquences économiques et managériales du grand tremblement de terre du 11 mars 2011

Human resource management practices change rapidly in China, at the initiative of both multinational corporations and local enterprises. Yet multinational corporations have greater experience transferring their practices across various cultural and institutional contexts. Thus, despite some...

(VF)Cet article étudie comment les multinationales combinent différents mécanismes afin de garder le contrôle sur leurs filiales en Chine. Nous avons conduit 22 entretiens en face-à-face, en Chine, avec des managers expatriés japonais (10) et français (12). Une analyse de contenu...

Long-Run Determinants of Japanese Import Flows from USA and China: A Sectoral Approach