Innovation and Change in Japanese Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Japanese Management in the 21st Century

   1. Introduction: Japanese Management in the 21st Century

      • Makoto Abe

      Pages 1-11

3. Restructuring Japan — Theoretical Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Restructuring of Japanese Enterprises — Programs for a Special Institutional Environment

      • Carsten Herbes

      Pages 15-38

   3. Rigidity and Change in the Japanese Venture Economy

      • Sebastian Schäfer, Cornelia Storz

      Pages 39-58

   4. The Attitude Toward Risk in Japanese Management

      • Werner Pascha

      Pages 59-73

4. Inside the New J-Firm

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Lifelong Employment, Labor Law and the Lost Decade: The End of a Job for Life in Japan?

      • Leon Wolff

      Pages 77-99

   3. Vocational Education and Training in Japan — Recent Trends

      • Silke Bromann

      Pages 100-118

   4. Going Global? Strategizing Ideology and Practice in a Japanese Subsidiary

      • Avital Baikovich

      Pages 119-138

   5. The Long Path Toward Gender Equality in Japan: The Revision of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law and Its Implementation

      • Stephanie Assmann

      Pages 139-156

   6. Innovation in Japanese HRM: Are Japanese Companies Adopting the Pay for Performance Principle?

      • Markus Pudelko

      Pages 157-173

5. Innovation and Knowledge Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Innovation and the Patenting of Knowledge in Japanese Corporations

      • John W. Clarry

      Pages 177-198

   3. Nonaka Revisited: Can Japanese Companies Sustain Their Knowledge Management Processes in the 21st Century?

      • Benjamin Hentschel, Parissa Haghirian

      Pages 199-220

6. Internationalization Processes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Japanese Corporate Strategies in Emerging Markets: From China-centered Trade and Investment to Diversified Internationalization

      • Pascal Gudorf

      Pages 223-238

7. Back Matter

   Pages 239-247

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'Innovation and Change in Japanese Management' shows which transformation processes and changes can be observed in Japanese companies in reaction to the economic challenges of the past decade. The book presents new research results and investigates the variety of changes that Japanese corporations and managers have experienced in recent years.

• Emerging Markets
• innovation
• Japan
• knowledge management
• management
• strategy
• banking

'It succeeds as a useful and thought-provoking source of part reference points and future signposts for emerging conceptual and empirical research into Japanese management.' - Dialogin

• Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

  Parissa Haghirian

MAKOTO ABE is a Professor of Marketing in the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Japan. STEPHANIE ASSMANN is a lecturer at the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan AVITAL BAIKOVICH is a PhD candidate at the department of labor studies at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. Dr. SILKE BROMANN is lecturer in Japanese Economy and Management at the Japan-Zentrum, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. JOHN W. CLARRY is currently an adjunct professor of International Business at The College of New Jersey, and a business consultant partner at Haeussler Analytics LLC. PASCAL GUDORF is Communications Manager at the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan in Tokyo, Japan. PARISSA HAGHIRIAN is an Associate Professor of International Management at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. BENJAMIN HENTSCHEL is a Master Student in the Graduate School of Global Studies (majoring in International Business and Development Studies) at Sophia University in Tokzo. CARSTEN HERBES is Director of Research& Development at Nawaro BioEnergie AG. WERNER PASCHA is a Full Professor of East Asian Economic Studies at the Mercator School of Management and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) of Duisburg-Essen University in Germany MARKUS PUDELKO is Professor in International Business at Tübingen University SEBASTIAN SCHÄFER is a research assistant at the Chair for Japanese Economy atGoethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. CORNELIA STORZ currently holds the Chair for Japanese Economy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Germany LEON WOLFF is Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL).

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