... Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Toxic leadership United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Cross-cultural management Japan Social constructivism Within leadership scholarship, there is a continuing interest in the study of the process...

...Khanh Hoang; Quang Thi Thieu Nguyen; Cuong Nguyen Purpose This study examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on investment decision-making of start-up firms in Japan. While existing literature suggests firms generally retrench investment under EPU, the authors argue that start-ups...

...-cultural management India Japan Customer value orientation The purpose of this paper is to explore cross-cultural issues which underpin Japanese CEO customer value orientation (CVO) whilst running Japanese manufacturing companies located in Indian contexts. In this paper, we develop an argument...

... implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a sample consisting of 208 firms listed in the Japan Nikkei Stock Index 500 and adopts three-stage least-squares (3SLS) to explore the relationship between environmental news exposure, environmental disclosure in corporate...

... sources of inputs from, for example, local sources and China to sell products in markets in Asia, including Vietnam and Japan. This enables firms to optimize procurements of raw material and parts and decrease labor costs by using Vietnamese workers. Closer relationships involving direct interactions...

... range of sectors. Multinational companies Joint ventures Acquisitions and mergers Japan Korea Finally, based on two sampling criteria, 1,207 IJVs were identified. H3a. Active assistance of foreign parents in technological management has positive impact on IJVs' extent...

...‐step analysis. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Environmental management Social responsibility Japan In light of global warming and climate change, governments around the world have tightened environmental related laws and regulations. In addition, with increasing public...

... to better corporate performance. The paper suggests that the effect of explicit corporate mission and its implementation has practical impacts in corporate policies and business outcomes. Research limitations/implications The sample is based on firms from Japan. The criteria used to discriminate between...

...@griffith.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Japan Management philosophy Business improvement Quality assurance 5S initially based on the Japanese acronyms of seiri (organisation), seiton (neatness), seisō (cleaning), seiketsu (standardisation...

... and outward investment development paths and the internationalisation process. We examine here the attitudes of Asian managers within Japan and Singapore. We wanted to determine whether there were any differences in how managers approached internationalisation. Stephanie Slater can be contacted...

...Mitsuru Kodama This paper presents a case study of how, over the last six years a large, a traditional corporation simultaneously created new service markets and established a dominant position in the competitive information and communication technology field in Japan. The corporation accepted...

...James Rafferty Throughout the growth period of Japanese manufactured exports, from the 1960s to the late 1980s, cultural arguments abounded to explain the influence of Japanese management practices and their role in Japan’s competitiveness. The conclusions drawn were that Japanese organisations...

...Robert R. Picard; John C. Groth Like many companies that have experienced enormous domestic success but then stumbled when attempting to enter international markets, Japan is finding that the international scene presents a significantly different set of challenges from those encountered...

... development that took place in Germany, the UK, Japan and the USA. The role of a domestic market, colony markets, and attempts to become a dominant colonizer all play a significant role in the development of various industries, and the efficiency levels that they attained. The role of government, the level...

... frameworks in future research. Culture is always an important aspect within an organization. Its importance is further emphasized in the case of the Japanese multinational companies for several reasons. The most dominant of them is the simple fact that Japan is a unique country, fairly isolated from...

...Janet Morrison; David Floyd Economic downturn in Japan has brought about an urgent need for Japanese companies to restructure. Throughout the postwar period of economic growth corporate Japan has been dominated by organizational structures based on relational ties, which have protected implicit...

... for TQM EXcellence model has been developed based on sound TQM practices. The theoretical background, personal experience and results of an intensive questionnaire survey conducted in Hong Kong, Japan and the UK have highlighted the importance of the Japanese 5‐S, BPR, QCC, ISO 9000 and TPM to TQM...

...Paul Herbig; Laurence Jacobs Japan’s economic success has been based primarily on social innovation. Western technology was accepted and used in institutions which retained their pure Japanese culture. Covers historical influences on and factors underpinning Japanese innovation. Concludes...

... is similar to that in Japan in that long term groupings of companies (chaebol) exist in a similar form to the keiretsu of Japan. However, the Korean chaebol differs from the keiretsu in terms of ownership and control[ 17 ]. In most cases a family and its members own the companies...

... Japanese productivity management works and could work in Europe. Brings to the fore the inevitable challenges and changes facing Japanese industry since the recession, and their consequent reactions. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Competitiveness Japan Operations management Productivity Quality...