Japanese Management in the Low Growth Era: Between External Shocks and Internal Evolution Book

	Managing in a Low Growth Era - The End of Managerial Idiosyncrasies?	1
	Japanese Management Practices in Historical Perspective	13
Sect. 1	Structure, Strategy and Internationalization
I	Externalization of Organizations and the Dual Governance Structure	21
II	Role of Inter-organizational Networks: The Case of Japanese Corporate Groups	37
	Commentary: Externalization and Inter-organizational Networks. How Globalization Transforms the Japanese Model	59
III	Modes of Corporate Internationalization: Japanese FDI Strategies in Asia-Pacific	73
IV	Japanese Companies in Europe: Their Strategies and Management Practices	91
	Commentary	109
Sect. 2	Corporate Governance and Control
V	Presidential Turnover and Performance in the Japanese Firm: The Evolution and Change of the Contingent Governance Structure under the Main Bank System	121
VI	Corporate Pension Schemes, Corporate Pension Governance, and State (De-) Regulation in Japan	145
VII	After Quasi-LBO Discipline: A Historical Reflection on Japanese Corporate Governance	161
	Commentary: From Voice to Exit? Corporate Finance Management and Corporate Governance	175
Sect. 3	Industrial Organization
VIII	Recession and Globalization: What Future for Japanese Industrial Keiretsu?	183
IX	A Changing Image of Japanese Small Entrepreneurs	207
	Commentary: A New Step in the Evolution of Japanese Industrial Networks?	229
Sect. 4	Human Resource Management
X	Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms Undergoing Transition: A Hierarchical Approach	243
	Commentary	263
XI	Limits and Latitude of Labour Adjustment Strategies in Japanese Companies	267
	Commentary	291
XII	Flexible Employment in Japanese Retailing: Toward a Just-in-time Employment Management	295
	Commentary: Flexible Employment in Japanese Retailing: Comparisons with Canada and Questions Concerning the Segmentation Theory	313
Sect. 5	Innovation and Technology Management
XIII	Japanese Corporate R&D in the 1990s: Change and Continuity	325
	Commentary: Japanese R&D Management Practices: The Globalization Challenge	349
XIV	The Phase Variety of Product Systems and System-Based Differentiation: An Alternative View on Organizational Capabilities of the Japanese Firm for Product Innovation	357
	Commentary: System-Based Differentiation in Japanese Firms. Comments from a German Perspective	377
Sect. 6	Change and Continuity: On the Transformation of the Japanese Management System
XV	Transformation of the Japanese Management System: A Contingency View	389
XVI	Will Japanese and French "Exceptionalisms" Vanish? The Convergence Hypothesis Reconsidered	409
	The Authors	425
	Index	431