... to compare those associations. Findings We found that the Japanese and the French have different conceptualizations of organizational virtuousness, suggesting that firms must tailor their virtue-building activities based on the local culture. Subjective well-being is comparatively more important in Japan...

...Remy Magnier-Watanabe; James Hoadley Purpose Whereas the USA is still the largest investment destination for Japanese companies, Japan also accounts as the second largest source of investment in the country. The purpose of this paper is to, empirically, examine the detailed motives of Japanese...

...Michel Rod; Tim Beal Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the developing wine markets of Japan and Singapore for New Zealand (NZ) wine. It is principally an opinion piece with some reference to the academic literature, to the trade literature and quite a bit of the authors' own...

... industries. Consequently, a number of strategic industries established with the government as the major promoter, owner and administrator. Japan's privatization movement began in 1880 when the government decided to transfer ownership of the modern industries to trained and wealthy families...

... (SPREAD) as dependent variable, membership of JIRA as a binary variable, whether firm is listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange or others (LISTING) as binary variable as well as above‐mentioned determinants as control variables. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Japan Electronics industry...

... to Kaizen practices. The strong performance observed can probably be explained by the fact that Japanese corporations tend to be better integrated and less prone to in‐fighting because of the network structures that characterise Japan's national culture. The effect of culture has meant Japanese companies...