Publications

Research Summary

Self-Regulation by Japanese Trade Associations

Ulrike Schaede has recently finished a book manuscript on Japanese trade associations. As a results of recent deregulation and the recession of the 1990s, Japanese industries are assuming increasingly important regulatory functions. They do this through autonomous... View Details

January 2008 (Revised May 2014)
Case

Kazuo Inamori, a Japanese Entrepreneur

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki

The case provides insight into a business leader whose cognizance of contextual forces (social, economic, and political) allowed him to drive significant change in an industry and Japanese society in the second half of the twentieth century. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leading Change; Management Style; Personal Development and Career; Telecommunications Industry; Japan

14 Jul 2006
Lecture

A Japanese M&A Wave?

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Japan

August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
Teaching Note

Japanese Capitalism TN

October 1988 (Revised January 1989)
Case

Japanese Financial Liberalization

1991
Chapter

Japanese Foreign Direct Investment

By: K. A. Froot

Keywords: Market Imperfections; Financial Instruments; Markets; Asset Pricing; Foreign Direct Investment; Corporate Finance

January 1985
Background Note

Winter Age of the Japanese Steel Industry

By: Kim B. Clark

Describes the situation facing the Japanese steel industry in 1984. Two strategies for coping with the world steel situation are presented: diversification and globalization. The actions of Nippon Steel and Nippon Kokan are used to illustrate these strategies. View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Situation or Environment; Business Strategy; Diversification; Steel Industry; Japan

June 2005
Background Note

Overview of the Japanese Apparel Market

By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han

Provides an overview of the Japanese apparel market, which was a 13.1 trillion yen industry in 2003, reflecting 5.5% year-over-year shrinkage since 1997, when retailers logged 17.5 trillion yen in sales. Compared to their global counterparts, Japanese apparel shoppers... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Financial Crisis; Trade; Emerging Markets; Sales; Luxury; Competition; Segmentation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Asia; China; Japan; Korean Peninsula

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

displaced, and millions left without electricity and water. Railways and roads were destroyed, and 383,000 buildings damaged—including a nuclear power plant that suffered a meltdown of three reactors, prompting widespread evacuations. Read the article in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

April 2011
Article

The Origins of Japanese Technological Modernization

By: Tom Nicholas

Explanations of Japanese technological modernization from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century have increasingly focused on domestic capabilities as opposed to the traditional emphasis on knowledge transfers from the West. Yet, the literature is mostly... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Body of Literature; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Patents; Measurement and Metrics; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Japan; Germany; Great Britain; United States

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March 2014
Teaching Plan

Kazuo Inamori, A Japanese Entrepreneur

By: Anthony Mayo

Keywords: Japan; Entrepreneurship; Japan

fall 1987
Article

Is the Japanese Management Craze Over?

By: J. A. Davis, M. Von Glinow and S. Kerr

Keywords: Management; Global Range; Japan

April 1987 (Revised April 1992)
Case

Voluntary Export Restraints (A): Japanese Automobiles--1981-84

November 1973
Background Note

Note on the Japanese Trading Co.

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Keywords: Trade; Japan

February 1987 (Revised August 1989)
Case

Development of the Japanese Steel Industry

winter 1991
Article

The Hidden Costs of Japanese Success

By: W. C. Kester

Keywords: Cost; Success; Japan

February 2002 (Revised September 2002)
Case

Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002

By: Tarun Khanna and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr

In early 2002, Japan, the world's largest economy, had been mired in a decade-long recession. A range of stimulus packages had failed to work their magic. The "Big Bang" financial deregulation reforms announced in 1998 had not quite produced the economic boom that the... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Investment Banking; Financial Markets; Globalization; Financial Crisis; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; Japan