Choose and Focus : : Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century /

Choose and Focus : : Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century / / Ulrike Schaede.

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Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan's longest period of economic growth since World War II. This remarkable achievement came about because of a transformation of Japanese business practices. This transf...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Schaede, Ulrike,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 8 tables, 33 charts/graphs, 1 line drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Toward Choose and Focus
  • 2. Japan's Strategic Inflection Point, 1998-2006
  • Part II. The Old Japan
  • 3. Postwar Corporate Strategy
  • 4. Diversification versus Focus
  • Part III. Japan's Changing Industrial Architecture
  • 5. Corporate Relations: Keiretsu, Cross-Shareholdings, and the Main Bank
  • 6. Ownership: Institutional Investors, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance
  • 7. Subcontracting: Globalization and Supplier Relations
  • 8. Price Competition: The Business-to-Business and Retail Price Revolutions
  • 9. Lifetime Employment: Changing Human Resource Management
  • Part IV. New Markets and New Entry
  • 10. Venture Capital: Opening Access to Finance
  • 11. New Competitors: Softbank, Kakaku.com, Astellas, and SBI E*Trade Securities
  • 12. Conclusion: The New Japan
  • References
  • Index

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