Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era

Managing in a Low Growth Era—The End of Managerial Idiosyncrasies?.- Japanese Management Practices in Historical Perspective.- Section 1 Structure, Strategy and Internationalization.- I Externalization of Organizations and the Dual Governance Structure.- II Role of Inter-organizational Networks: The Case of Japanese Corporate Groups.- Commentary: Externalization and Inter-organizational Networks. How Globalization Transforms the Japanese Model.- III Modes of Corporate Internationalization: Japanese FDI Strategies in Asia-Pacific.- IV Japanese Companies in Europe: Their Strategies and Management Practices.- Commentary.- Section 2 Corporate Governance and Control.- V Presidential Turnover and Performance in the Japanese Firm: The Evolution and Change of the Contingent Governance Structure under the Main Bank System.- VI Corporate Pension Schemes, Corporate Pension Governance, and State (De-) Regulation in Japan.- VII After Quasi-LBO Discipline: A Historical Reflection on Japanese Corporate Governance.- Commentary: From Voice to Exit? Corporate Finance Management and Corporate Governance.- Section 3 Industrial Organization.- VIII Recession and Globalization: What Future for Japanese Industrial Keiretsu?.- IX A Changing Image of Japanese Small Entrepreneurs.- Commentary: A New Step in the Evolution of Japanese Industrial Networks?.- Section 4 Human Resource Management.- X Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms Undergoing Transition: A Hierarchical Approach.- Commentary.- XI Limits and Latitude of Labour Adjustment Strategies in Japanese Companies.- Commentary.- XII Flexible Employment in Japanese Retailing: Toward a Just-in-time Employment Management.- Commentary: Flexible Employment in Japanese Retailing: Comparisons with Canada and Questions Concerning theSegmentation Theory.- Section 5 Innovation and Technology Management.- XIII Japanese Corporate R&D in the 1990s: Change and Continuity.- Commentary: Japanese R&D Management Practices: The Globalization Challenge.- XIV The Phase Variety of Product Systems and System-Based Differentiation: An Alternative View on Organizational Capabilities of the Japanese Firm for Product Innovation.- Commentary: System-Based Differentiation in Japanese Firms. Comments from a German Perspective.- Section 6 Change and Continuity: On the Transformation of the Japanese Management System.- XV Transformation of the Japanese Management System: A Contingency View.- XVI Will Japanese and French “Exceptionalisms” Vanish? The Convergence Hypothesis Reconsidered.- The Authors.