Restructuring Japanese Business for Growth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction: The Challenge of Post-Bubble Japanese Business Growth

   1. Introduction: The Challenge of Post-Bubble Japanese Business Growth

      • Raj Aggarwal

      Pages 1-8

3. Business Strategies in Japan

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Emerging Nature of Post-Bubble Japanese Business: Policies for Continuing Economic Growth into the New Millennium

      • Raj Aggarwal

      Pages 11-30

   3. Education and Competitiveness of Japanese Firms in a Changing Global Economy

      • Hwy-Chang Moon

      Pages 31-41

   4. Globalization Strategies of Japanese Firms

      • George S. Yip

      Pages 43-61

   5. Recent Developments in American and European Direct Investment in Post-Bubble Japan: Contrasting Perspectives

      • Peter J. Buckley, Hafiz Mirza, John R. Sparkes

      Pages 63-77

4. Japanese Financial Environment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Has Japan Entered a New Era of Financial Constraints?

      • Allan D. Brunner, Steven B. Kamin

      Pages 81-100

   3. Foreign Firms in Japan’s Securitites Industry in the 1980s and Post-Bubble Economy

      • William V. Rapp

      Pages 101-144

   4. Determinants of Japanese Banks’ Expansion in the European Union

      • Dayanand Arora

      Pages 145-160

   5. U.S. Trade Balance, Protectionism, and Japanese Equity Prices: International Influence of National Macroeconomic News

      • Raj Aggarwal, David C. Schirm

      Pages 161-175

5. Management in Japanese Firms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Opportunistic Tendencies in International Joint Ventures with the Japanese: the Effects of Culture, Shared Decision Making, and Relationship Age

      • Jean L. Johnson, John B. Cullen, Tomoaki Sakano

      Pages 179-191

   3. The Challenges to Japan’s Market in the Post-Bubble Recession

      • May M. L. Wong

      Pages 193-208

   4. Japanese Women in the Workplace

      • Terri R. Lituchy

      Pages 209-219

   5. Linking JIT Strategies and Control Systems: A Comparison of the U.S. and Japan

      • Shirley J. Daniel, Wolf D. Reitsperger

      Pages 221-240

6. Japanese Marketing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. Japanese Marketing in the Post-Bubble Era

      • Johny K. Johansson, Masaaki Hirano

      Pages 243-257

   3. Entering the Japanese Retail Market: Survival of the Fittest?

      • G. Scott Erickson, James M. Maskulka, Therese A. Maskulka

      Pages 259-274

Restructuring Japanese Business for Growth consists of eighteen previously unpublished invited chapters by experts on Japanese business. It will attract both commercial and academic interest. Japanese business can be expected to continue to be of great importance in global and Asian economics, especially as the Japanese economy is the dominant economy in Asia, being larger than all other Asian economies combined. Policymakers and business people interested in understanding Japanese financial markets will find this book useful. In addition, this book should be a valuable resource for undergraduate, graduate, and executive development courses in international business, global finance, and Japanese business.

• Asian Economics
• Asian Economies
• EU
• Global economy
• International Business
• business
• growth
• management

• John Carroll University, Cleveland, USA

  Raj Aggarwal

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