Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/84466
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Serie Documentos de Trabajo No. 452
Publisher: 
Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA), Buenos Aires
Abstract: 
The purpose of this review is to evaluate the status of scholarly research on Japanese management as it is applied outside Japan. The first part of the review deals with the concept of Japanese management. The second part aims at understanding how Japanese management is applied in foreign countries, both at subsidiaries of Japanese corporations and in non-Japanese firms; in particular, the issue of transferability of concepts and techniques is considered in detail. Primarily EBSCO databases were used, but other sources were consulted as well. A set of seven steps was used to organize the literature search, analysis, and report. These steps, presented in a section on methodology, are: 1. Rationale; 2. Sampling results; 6. Interpretations, limitations, and implications; and 7. Reporting the review. There is general agreement among different authors on the main tenets of Japanese management (especially those referred to Human Resources Management) and on the ability of firms
Subjects: 
Japanese management
Japanese management abroad
transferability of Japanese management
international corporations
multinational corporations
Japanese multinational corporations
Japanese and non-Japanese alike
JEL: 
F23
M10
M11
M12
M14
P51
ISBN: 
978-987-1062-63-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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