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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460555
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Choose and FocusDDC classification:
  • 338.50952
LOC classification:
  • HF1601 -- .S34 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: Examines how "choose and focus" strategies, whereby corporations concentrate on core areas and spin off unrelated businesses, have completely altered the strategic logic of Japan's previous industrial architecture.
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Intro -- 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.

Examines how "choose and focus" strategies, whereby corporations concentrate on core areas and spin off unrelated businesses, have completely altered the strategic logic of Japan's previous industrial architecture.

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