Choose and focus
Subtitle: Japanese business strategies for the 21st century
By: Ulrike Schaede.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780801447068
Subjects: Competition -- Japan; Product differentiation -- Japan; Strategic planning -- Japan; High technology industries -- Japan; Japan -- Commercial policy; Japan -- Economic policy -- 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Japan's strategic inflection point, 1998-2006; title: Postwar corporate strategy; title: Diversification versus focus; title: Corporate relations : keiretsu, cross-shareholdings, and the main bank; title: Ownership : institutional investors, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance; title: Subcontracting : globalization and supplier relations; title: Price competition : the business-to-business and retail price revolutions; title: Lifetime employment : changing human resource management; title: Venture capital : opening access to finance; title: New competitors : Softbank, Kakaku.com, Astellas, and SBI E*Trade; title: Conclusion : the new Japan.