The Evolution of Multinationals from Japan and the Asia Pacific: Comparing International Business Japan, Korean, China, India
Robert Fitzgerald · Chris Rowley
Oct 2018 · Routledge
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The rise of the Japanese multinational company (JMNC) marked, from the 1980s onwards, an historic change in the structure and in the dynamics of the international economy. For the first time, businesses from a non-Western nation established a competitive global presence, and they did so by bringing their advanced products and management systems to the developed economies of Europe and North America. In the last 30 years, our interpretations of JMNCs have undergone a series of revisions. Korean firms followed JMNCs in the 1990s and the Chinese likewise in the 2000s. A seeming decline in JMNC competitiveness and developments in the structure of the international economy challenged a business model of parental company direction, control and capabilities. Both trends asked questions about how Japanese subsidiaries should operate in global production chains increasingly reliant on contracting out and off-shoring, and how JMNCs might engage more in strategic cooperation and empower subsidiary decision-making. The contributors to this volume consider a wide range of relevant issues: they demonstrate the long-term evolution of JMNCs; they compare the experience of JMNCs with firms from the other two major Asia Pacific economies, Korea and China; they evaluate the applicability of established foreign direct investment (FDI) theory to MNCs from Japan and the Asia Pacific; and they reflect on the internal organization of JMNCs at the global, national and subnational level. This book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.
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Dr Robert Fitzgerald is at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He specializes in business history, Asia Pacific business, and multinational enterprise, and he has recently published Rise of the Global Company: Multinational Enterprise and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge University Press).
Professor Rowley
is the Inaugural Professor of Human Resource Management, Cass Business School, City University, London, UK and Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia. He is Book Series Editor of Working in Asia (Routledge) and Asian Studies (Elsevier) and has published widely, with over 500 journal articles, books and chapters and other contributions in practitioner journals, magazines and newsletters.Rate this ebook
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