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To Conclude
I have now reached the end of my book, as have you, dear reader. The things that had been on my mind more than 15 years of my career as a futurist have now been more or less written down and passed forward. I ...
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Conclusion
A key challenge for open initiatives is to attract participants (Healy and Schussman 2003; Chesbrough and Appleyard 2007). This challenge grows with the increase in comparative opportunities and creates compet...
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Strategy Integration at the Global Level
This chapter uses case studies of management strategy for effective global level operations to discuss how companies from advanced nations can incorporate emerging countries experiencing rapid growth into thei...
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India’s Neemrana Industrial Park for Japanese Firms
India is second only to China in terms of population. India’s economic growth since the mid-2000s has risen to around 8 %, and is now considered as having a promising future market. However, the driving force ...
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Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency and Japanese Firms
As the rate of market growth in advanced nations is tapering off, emerging nations are showing great growth potential, with markets expanding alongside increasing income levels of the people of these countries...
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Introduction: Needs for New Global Strategies
Electronics City, an agglomeration of IT companies, lies approximately 40 min away by road from Bangalore, India. Step** into the Infosys headquarters located here reveals a world completely different from t...
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Changes in the Global Economic Environment
Understanding economic changes at the global level is critical to the formulation of global business strategies. In Chap. 1, we provided an overview of the e...
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New Business Model as Response to Competition from Emerging Economies
Low economic growth has been estimated for developed countries, including Japan, because of decreasing population growth rate, with no future prospects for large market expansion. On the other hand, the rise o...
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Shiseido Marketing in China
Shiseido is a leading Japanese cosmetics manufacturer that has been in operation for more than a century. With growth in domestic and international markets, specially those of emerging nations such as China, i...
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Alliance-Based Global Strategy
When creating new operations overseas, companies must fulfill various requirements, such as providing benefits for local employees, finding sources for materials and parts, creating logistics infrastructure in...
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Multinationals’ R&D in China and India
When considering the R&D centers of Japanese firms by country, China is second to the US, and the number of R&D centers there is increasing. The importance of China as a center for R&D is not limited to just J...
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Marketing Theory in Global Business Context
Advancements in emerging countries present new market opportunities for Japanese corporations; however, to do so, they must confront the threats posed by local companies playing catch up by moving from a “buil...
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Suzuki Motor’s Expansion in India
Suzuki Motor Corporation (Suzuki) is an automobile and motorcycle manufacturer of compact cars such as Alto and Wagon R. Domestically, the company trails Toyota in terms of the annual car production, and is ab...
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Management Strategies for Global Businesses
This chapter examines management strategy theories for global businesses. What extent of company’s resources should be assigned to overseas operations, and what minimum percentage of revenues should come from ...
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Comparison of Economic Institutions in China and India
Global business strategies must conform to business environments in target countries and regions. As repeatedly expressed herein, while the world is becoming flatter, there still are significant barriers in th...
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International R&D Management
In order to enter into foreign markets with technical strength, it has become increasingly critical for Japanese companies to maximize the effectiveness of research and development. In addition to global weste...
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Hitachi Construction Machinery: Becoming a Wholly Owned Chinese Entity
In 1995, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (HCM) established a Chinese subsidiary, Hitachi Construction Machinery (China) Co., Ltd. (HCMC). Since then, the company has established close relations with t...
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Erratum to: Managing Agricultural Enterprises
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The AO’s Many Achievements
The achievements of the AO Foundation drive the focus of this fourth, and final, section. When J& J’s acquisition of Synthes was completed in early January 2012, a major new chapter of the AO Foundation had to...
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Automation and Ethics
Decision-makers in business can expect to face a range of new ethical challenges connected to automation and digitalization. One notable example is that of the programming of self-driving cars. It is likely th...