Bankers in Japan and China are masters of accounting, not risk management, and American-style rescue packages will not solve their problems. This work explains the banking crises in Japan and China, pointing out that Japanese and Chinese bankers must learn to "escape the abacus mentality

An empirical investigation of the relationship between IT and competitiveness of Japanese manufacturing companies, this paper finds an indirect correlation between the two variables. IT improves competitiveness through labor empowerment and strategic alliances rather than directly. The paper...

Responding to Michael Porter’s claim that “Japanese companies rarely have a strategy”, this paper argues that the competitive advantage of Japanese enterprises is not to be found in traditional practices. Rather, it is due to the way these practices are upgraded and reinforced by...