This paper examines the changing process of strategic alliance formation in the Japanese electronics industry between 1985 and 1998. With data on 128 Japanese electronics/electrical machinery makers, we use a dyad panel regression methodology to address a series of hypotheses drawn from...

This paper looks at the choice of strategic partners for alliance formation in the Japanese electronics industry during the post-bubble economic period 1992-97. Results from a dyad analysis of 128 companies suggest that firms tend to look for partners within their existing vertical keiretsu...

From a series of qualitative interviews with Japanese managers and German managers and workers in thirty-one Japanese-owned companies in the D?sseldorf region of western Germany, this article discusses differences in cultural patterns and organizational styles between the German and Japanese...