1st Edition

The Evolution of Multinationals from Japan and the Asia Pacific Comparing International Business Japan, Korean, China, India

Edited By Robert Fitzgerald, Chris Rowley Copyright 2017
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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2. Whose fall and whose rise? Lessons of Japanese MNCs for Chinese and emerging economy MNCs Robert Fitzgerald and Huaichuan Rui

3. Is there an East Asian model of MNC internationalization? A comparative analysis of Japanese and Korean firms Martin Hemmert and Keith Jackson

4. An empirical investigation into the internationalization patterns of Japanese firms Pearlean Chadha and Jenny Berrill

5. Japanese production networks in India: spatial distribution, agglomeration and industry effects Sierk A. Horn & Adam R. Cross

6. MNCs from the Asia Pacific in the global economy: examples and lessons from Japan, Korea, China and India Robert Fitzgerald & Chris Rowley

Biography

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.