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Summary
Summary
In the wake of globalization, international management has gained importance as a decisive element behind the success of a business enterprise, however little is known about the collective strategies between two foreign firms in an overseas market. This book discusses the theory of collective international strategies and the adaptation of Japanese and German companies to the changing conditions of global competition due to third market business cooperation. The author analyses the management style of Japanese-German business cooperation in Asia on a strategic and operative level and offers advice for the success of collective strategies and shows what we can learn from Japanese-German companies in Asian markets.
Author Notes
Michael Gurian is an educator, family therapist, and author of fourteen books, including the bestselling The Wonder of Boys, A Fine Young Man, and The Good Son. He is an internationally celebrated speaker and writer whose work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, and other national publications, as well as on the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, and numerous other broadcast media.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| List of Abbreviations | p. x |
| Preface | p. xii |
| 1 Introduction | p. 1 |
| 2 Forms of International Business: Theoretical Foundation and Characteristics | p. 11 |
| Internationalization of the firm | p. 11 |
| Export strategy | p. 12 |
| Internationalization strategy | p. 13 |
| Multinational or multidomestic strategy | p. 14 |
| Global strategy | p. 15 |
| Transnational strategy and interfirm networks | p. 16 |
| Collective internationalization strategy | p. 20 |
| 3 The Collective Internationalization Strategy: A Theoretical Approach | p. 25 |
| Neo-classical theory | p. 26 |
| Strategic concepts | p. 26 |
| Transaction cost theory | p. 29 |
| Principal agency theory | p. 34 |
| Game theory | p. 36 |
| Resource dependence, social exchange and the interfirm network theory | p. 37 |
| 4 Objectives and Motivation for Collective Strategies | p. 41 |
| 5 Success Factors for and Problems with Collective Internationalization Strategies | p. 46 |
| Success factors | p. 46 |
| Problems | p. 56 |
| 6 Implementation of Collective Internationalization Strategies | p. 65 |
| The Japanese company as a learning organization: learning through collaboration | p. 65 |
| Theoretical approach | p. 66 |
| Organizational learning through technology and knowledge transfer | p. 73 |
| Organizational learning through kaizen | p. 85 |
| Collective internationalization strategies in Japanese industry | p. 89 |
| Collective internationalization strategies of Japanese companies in advanced technology | p. 93 |
| The Japanese supplier network system in transition: a challenge for collective strategies | p. 97 |
| German management and international business collaboration | p. 102 |
| The tradition of business collaboration in Japan | p. 103 |
| Third-country collaboration | p. 106 |
| Japanese-German third-country collaboration in East and Southeast Asia | p. 108 |
| 7 Characteristics and Motives of Japanese-German Third-Country Collaboration in East and Southeast Asia | p. 112 |
| Changes and challenges in the region | p. 112 |
| Overview and regional specifics | p. 123 |
| Motives | p. 126 |
| 8 Conflicts and Elements of Success | p. 132 |
| Conflicts | p. 133 |
| Elements of success | p. 139 |
| Trust | p. 141 |
| Human-resource management | p. 147 |
| Organizational structure | p. 150 |
| Technology protection | p. 151 |
| 9 Conclusion | p. 154 |
| Bibliography | p. 158 |
| Index | p. 189 |
