1. How traditional Japanese MNEs have changed their business models -- 2. Internationalization of Japanese local, niche, and unicorn companies -- 3. The recovery from natural disaster -- 4. Servitaization -- 5. Evolution of Japanese HRM (Inclusion and diversity).

This paper combines neoinstitutional theory and research on the institutional environment to explain the process of organizational entry into new geographic markets. We extend neoinstitutional theory's proposition that prior decisions and actions by other organizations provide legitimization and...