Research Catalog

Title

Japanese multinationals abroad : individual and organizational learning / edited by Schon L. Beechler and Allan Bird.

Publication

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Beechler, Schon, 1959-
• Bird, Allan.

Description

ix, 274 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• A defining feature of Japan's emergence as a global economic superpower has been Japanese firms' establishment of thousands of affiliate operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Despite the tremendous importance of this development, there have been surprisingly few articles published on the management of Japanese operations abroad, and even fewer attempts to collect and make sense of this scholarship.
• Schon Beechler and Allan Bird remedy this situation with Japanese Multinationals Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning, a unique collection from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars.
• Japanese Multinationals Abroad: Individual and Organizational Learning addresses a set of issues that are critical for both international business researchers and practicing managers. It not only provides an integrated picture of how Japanese employees and organizations learn to adapt and prosper, it presents clear lessons for all multinational corporations, regardless of their national origins.

Series Statement

Japan business and economics series

Uniform Title

Japan business and economics series.

Subjects

• Industrial management > Japan
• Corporations, Japanese > Management
• International business enterprises

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Introduction. 1. The End of Innocence: Japanese Multinationals Abroad / Allan Bird and Schon Beechler. 2. Changing Perspectives on the Organization of Japanese Multinational Companies / D. Eleanor Westney -- Pt. II. Putting Japanese and Local Nationals Together: Creating Third Cultures. 3. When Japanese and Other Nationals Create Something New: A Comparative Study of Negotiated Work Culture in Germany and the United States / Mary Yoko Brannen and Jane E. Salk. 4. Negotiated Understandings: The Organizational Implications of a Cross-National Business Negotiation / Jill Kleinberg. 5. Roles of Knowledge and "Cross-Knowledge" in Creating a Third Culture: An Example of Performance Appraisal in a Japanese Corporation in New York / Noriya Sumihara. 6. The Rice-Paper Ceiling in Japanese Companies: Why It Exists and Persists / Rochelle Kopp -- Pt. III. Transplanting and Transforming Human Resource Management: Philosophies, Policies, and Practices at the Subsidiary Level.
• 7. National Origin and the Development of Organizational Capabilities: The Case of International Human Resource Management in Two Japanese MNCs / Sully Taylor. 8. Labor-Management Relations in the Japanese Consumer Electronics Maquiladoras / Martin Kenney, Jairo Romero and Oscar Contreras [et al.]. 9. When Performance Does Not Matter: Human Resource Management in Japanese-Owned U.S. Affiliates / Vladimir Pucik -- Pt. IV. Organizational Learning and the Parent-Affiliate Connection. 10. Globalization of Pharmaceutical Research and Development in Japanese Companies: Organizational Learning and the Parent-Subsidiary Relationship / David T. Methe and Joan D. Penner-Hahn. 11. Working Together, But How? The Need for Intercultural Awareness / John Kidd. 12. Organizational Learning in Japanese Overseas Affiliates / Allan Bird, Sully Taylor and Schon Beechler.

ISBN

0195119258 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98020135

OCLC

• 39042855
• ocm39042855

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries