Japanese business

This four-volume set on Japanese business enterprise traces the evolution of writings on Japanese business and management from the early 1970s to the present day.

The articles included here represent some of the most influential writings in the field from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as major recent publications on current and future directions in the evolution of research on Japanese business enterprise. 'Classic' articles spanning the early 1970s through the mid-1980s show how the perceptions of an entire generation of the nature of Japanese business enterprise and its unique attributes were formed.

Key writings on Japanese management published between 1980 and 1994 discuss industrial and functional areas within Japanese business enterprise: manufacturing and production in general; the automotive industry; banking and finance; corporate strategy; and inter-organizational relationships.

Central themes in this comprehensive set are the internationalization and organizational learning of Japanese business.

Key articles discuss Japanese management overseas, and innovation and learning in Japanese business. In all this set brings together, in one reference work, the most important and influential articles on Japanese business written over the last 25 years.

For practitioners, academics and students who are interested in Japanese business, this work provides an invaluable research tool.