Multinational Companies from Japan: Capabilities, Competitiveness, and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9781138946323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 182 str.

Robert Fitzgerald; Chris Rowley

Opis

Since the bursting of Japan’s bubble economy, from 1990 onwards, its multinational companies (MNCs) have faced new competitive challenges, and questions about the management practices on which they had built their initial success in global markets. This book offers a long-term perspective on the evolution of Japanese MNCs, and it provides new insights into how they have transformed their strategies and competitive capabilities in response to new challenges of the global market place since 1990. This book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

Spis treści

1. Japanese multinationals in the post-bubble era: new challenges and evolving capabilities  2. Global value chains and the lost competitiveness of the Japanese watch industry: an applied business history of Seiko since 1990  3. Do Japanese electronics firms still follow traditional vertical integration strategies? Evidence from the liquid crystal display industry  4. Strategic capabilities and the emergence of the global factory: Omron in China  5. Boundary-crossing and the localization of capabilities in a Japanese multinational firm  6. Do Japanese MNCs use expatriates to contain risk in Asian host countries?  7. Cross-national distance and insidership within networks: Japanese MNCs’ ownership strategies in their overseas subsidiaries  8. Cultural determinants of alliance management capability – an analysis of Japanese MNCs in India  9. How have Japanese multinational companies changed? Competitiveness, management and subsidiaries

O autorze

Robert Fitzgerald is a Reader in Business History and International Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He specializes in business history, Asia Pacific business, and multinational enterprise, and he has recently published Rise of the Global Company: Multinational Enterprise and the Making of the Modern World (2015). Chris Rowley is Inaugural Professor of Human Resource Management at the Cass Business School, City University, London, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He is the editor of the book series Working in Asia and Asian Studies, and has published widely, with over 500 journal articles, books and chapters and other contributions in practitioner journals, magazines and newsletters.