This book examines how, and the degree to which, the development of market principles accompnaying the advances of globalization has affected the traditional Japanese system. It focuses on four aspects of corporate management: management institutions, strategy, organization, and human resource...

"Globalization is a complex phenomenon involving the mobility of goods, capital, labour and ideas across country borders. From an economic point of view, two waves of globalization have been identified by scholars so far. The first wave materialized between the second half of the Nineteenth...

"China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of "reform and opening up" put into place since the late 1970s. China's industrial policies have nurtured a large group of firms with high profits and a high market capitalisation. However, few people in the West can...

"The success of an economy to adapt quickly, flexibly and effectively to the demands of the changing international economic environment can only be investigated using the achievements of other national economies or regions as a benchmark. This book analyzes the fundamental factors of...