Japanese manufacturers have gained considerable market shares in global competition in the last decades. Despite rapid Yen appreciation, signs of unemployment, and the real estate and banking crisis there is no reason to believe that the conditions leading to Japan's unprecedented rapid growth have changed. Christian Göseke analyses the role of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) and shows that this trade promoting state agency constitutes an information-sharing system that improves the competitiveness of Japanese firms. The author comes to the conclusion that processes of gathering and disseminating information on foreign markets are more efficient than those of the German trade promotion system.

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Dr. Christian Göseke promovierte am Lehrstuhl für Internationales Management von Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Horst Albach der WHU, Otto-Beisheim-Hochschule, Koblenz. Er arbeitet heute bei einer internationalen Unternehmensberatung in Berlin.

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Book Title: Information Gathering and Dissemination
Book Subtitle: The Contribution of JETRO to Japanese Competitiveness
Authors: Christian Göseke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08564-5
Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8244-6455-5Published: 15 April 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-3-663-08564-5Published: 01 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 246
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business and Management, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Explaining Japanese Competitiveness

The Role of the State and the Contribution of JETRO

Organization of JETRO

Information Networks

Interfirm Information Exchange

Summary and Policy Implications

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