Research Catalog

Title

Japanese multinationals : strategies and management in the global Kaisha / edited by Nigel Campbell and Fred Burton.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Campbell, Nigel.
• Burton, Fred, 1938-

Description

xiv, 298 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• International business enterprises > Japan > Management
• Industrial management > Japan
• Strategic alliances (Business) > Japan
• Corporations, Japanese > Management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Nigel Campbell -- 2. Japanese capitalism, Anglo-Saxon capitalism: how will the Darwinian contest turn out? / Ronald Dore -- 3. The globalization of Japanese firms / Hiroyuki Itami -- 4. The trade effects of Japanese manufacturing investment in the UK economy / Roger Strange -- 5. International alliances as a strategic tool of Japanese electronic companies / Fred Burton and Freddy Saelens -- 6. Global strategy in the Japanese semiconductor industry: knowledge creation through strategic alliances / Yoshiya Teramoto, Frank-Juergen Richter, Naoto Iwasaki, Tohru Takai and Yukihiro Wakuta -- 7. Japanese joint ventures in Italy: a second-best strategy? / Corrado Molteni -- 8. The strategic role of Japanese R&D centres in the UK / David Cairncross -- 9. Organizational perestroika: intra-company markets in Japanese multinational corporations / Tadao Kagono and Nigel Campbell.
• 10. The best of both worlds? Human resource management practices in US-based Japanese affiliates / Schon Beechler and Allan Bird -- 11. The transfer of human resource management systems overseas: an exploratory study of Japanese and American maquiladoras / Schon Beechler and Sully Taylor -- 12. The core workforce - peripheral workforce dichotomy and the transfer of Japanese management practices / Vagelis Dedoussis -- 13. The challenges of globalization: the strategic role of local managers in Japanese-owned US subsidiaries / Vladimir Pucik -- 14. Compensation system and practice at a Japanese owned and managed sales subsidiary in the USA / Noriya Sumihara -- 15. Organizational development in Japanese overseas subsidiaries / Daniel Dirks -- 16. Supplier relations in the Japanese auto industry: an empirical comparison with the US industry / M. Bensaou.

ISBN

0415096073

LCCN

93045900

OCLC

• 29549541
• ocm29549541

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries