The Global competitiveness of the Asian firm Book

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
	Notes on the Editor and Contributors
1	Socio-cultural Background of Competitive Management and Technology in the Western Pacific Rim	3
2	Ethics and Global Competitiveness: Confucianism in Korean Companies	22
3	The Japanese Management Structure as a Competitive Strategy: The Importance of a Nexus of Long-term Treaties, Common Knowledge and Firm-Specific Learning	35
4	Rethinking Inter-firm Ties in Japan as a Factor of Competitiveness	49
5	Future Models of Japanese Management: A Forecast Based on the Delphi Method	71
6	Determinants of the Competitive Power of Small Business Networking: The Overseas Chinese Case	101
7	The Process of Internationalisation of PRC Multinationals	121
8	Japan's Success in China	129
9	Globalisation and the Korean Electronics Industry: A Chandlerian Perspective	138
10	Japanese-affiliated Automobile Plants in the United States and Taiwan	155
11	A Comparative Study on the Japanese Production System Employed at Affiliated Electronics Plants in the United States and Taiwan	167
12	Sanyo's Overseas Production Activities: Seven Large Plants in the US, Mexico, the UK, Germany, Spain and China	179
13	On the Advance of Japanese Electronics Multinationals in the EC: Companies, Trends and Trade Policy	203
14	Japanese Pharmaceutical Firms: Players in the European Market?	232
15	Globalisation through Localisation: Reflections on the Japanese Production Subsidiaries in the United Kingdom	265
16	Competence Building in Japanese and European Firms: The Case of Opto-electronics	289
17	Global Competitiveness through Strategic Alliances: The Case of the German and Japanese Chemical Industries	304
18	Managerial Behaviour of French and Japanese Firms	332
	Index	366