Decision-Making & Japan


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Demonstrates that Western individualism and Japanese groupism are not necessarily incompatible or mutually exclusive.




International Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms


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This book examines possibly the greatest challenge facing Japanese multinationals as they continue to expand their foreign direct investment: how to integrate local managers into the management process of overseas subsidiaries as well as in that of the parent companies themselves. In the majority of Japanese subsidiaries, management control has remained in the hands of Japanese managers at extremely high cost, but now Japanese firms are being forced to consider integrating local nationals into the management process of their companies, a process which may yield significant competitive advantage.







Mirroring Consensus


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Over the last four decades, many Japanese companies have opened branch offices or subsidiaries in the Netherlands. The same is true of Dutch companies in Japan. In these organisations, nationals with different cultural backgrounds worked together intensively and decisions of varying importance are made continuously. Effective co-operation and decision-making in such intercultural business settings require insight into each other’s ways of thinking. In this book, experienced authors from business and academia discuss Japanese-Dutch economic relationships against this background of similarities, differences and adaptations.