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(★)(Their International Adaptability)(Japanese companies have been spreading overseas in large numbers since the 1970s. Analyzing the reasons for the successes and failures of these multinational companies as they function in a non-Japanese environment is the concern of this collective study. Multinationals are confronted daily with the problems of how to operate or adapt in new environments where their familiar assumptions may not apply. Rather than falling back on the over-generalized notion of ´culture´ to explain differences in business management and strategy, the contributors to this volume see labor market mobility, industrial structure, supplier relations, career expectations, and a host of management practices as reasons for the difficulties multinationals encounter. Case studies of Japanese multinationals in Europe as well as German multinationals in Japan are particularly revealing of the various responses local employees have toward their foreign employers. ◆Kazuo Shibagaki is Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo ; Malcolm Trevor is Senior Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute, London ; and Tetsuo Abo is Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. ▼CONTENTS／ ●PART I.JAPANESE MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL ADAPTABILITY／The Emergence of Japanese Multinational Enterprise and the Theory of Foreign Direct Investment (Tetsuo Abo)／The Bright and the Dark Sides of Japanese Management Overseas (Hideki Yoshihara)／The Globalisation of Japanese Companies (Akihiro Okumura)／The International Adaptability of Japanese Inter-Firm Relations : A Royal Road to Innovation? (Yoshiya Teramoto, Nigel Howard, and Makoto Kanda)／Japanese References in French Management : Pattern or Pretext? (Martine Bercovici)／Quality Circles and Job Design : An Empirical Examination (Oded Shenkar, Ezer Hattem, and Shlomo Globerson)／The Concept of Holiday in Different Parts of the World (Takashi Takeshita)／Institutionalisation in Banking in Meiji Japan : The Case of the Corporation (H.C. Maat)／ ●PART II.JAPANESE MANAGEMENT OVERSEAS／Kao Corporation´s Direct Investment and Adaptation in Europe (Akira Kudoo)／Application-Adaptation Problems in Japanese Automobile and Electronics Plants in the USA (Hiroshi Itagaki)／A Comparative Study of International Subcontracting Systems : The Automotive Parts Industries of the USA, the UK, France, and Japan (Masayoshi Ikeda)／A Proposal for Transferring a Japanese Management System Overseas : Applying the Information-Sharing System Approach in the UK (Masaru Sakuma)／Japanese Managers and British Staffs : A Comparison of Relations and Expections in Blue-Collar and White-Collar Firms (Malcolm Trevor)／Japanese Direct Manufacturing Investment in France (Masaru Yoshimori)／Personnel Management of Japanese Subsidiaries in West Germany (S.J. Park)／How Japanese Work Out as Bosses in Germany (H.J. Heise)／ ●PART III.EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT IN JAPAN／Swimming Against the Tide? The Strategy of European Manufacturing Investors in Japan (Hafiz Mirza, Peter J. Buckley, and John R. Sparkes)／Managing Subsidiaries of German Companies in Japan : Some Findings on Adaptation Strategies (B. Kumar and H. Steinmann)／) |
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