Global Business
Global Business
Today, Asia’s currencies are collapsing and its stock markets crumbling. Yet, despite this current evidence of the vagaries of market economics, the entire world seems to be embracing its policies. Why? What historic...
The authors trace the history of relations between the two countries, beginning with the series of efforts by the United States to open Japan to trade, which finally succeeded in 1854. The two countries moved closer...
Twenty-five years ago, most knowledgeable investors would not have dreamed of putting even a tiny portion of respectable capital into shares of “Third World” countries. Since then, a number of these countries have gone...
The Japanese government has long played a central role in fostering industrial development, seeing it as essential to Japan's prosperity and national strength. Corporate objectives are focused on market share and...
The pace of life has accelerated at an amazing rate over the last few centuries. Rapid technological advancement has completely changed the way businesses operate. Global borders have blurred and geography has little...
Seven important trends underlie the emergence of a new worldview- a shift in consciousness, disenchantment with scientism, new inner sources of authority and power, a respiritualization of society, a decline in...
Global competition tends to reduce the importance of home markets. There must be a shift, therefore, away from the classical vertical organizational structure to a horizontal relationship where there is interdependence...
International competition for the brightest minds has made higher education a global commodity. In The Great Brain Race, Ben Wildavsky makes the case that this latest educational globalization should...
Alletzhauser produces a skillful re-creation of dramatic conflicts that the Nomura story represents: Nomura versus fate, society, and situation, as well as the conflicts experienced by the majorplayers with themselves...
In The Japan That Can Say No, Ishihara outlines what Japan must do in order to be the mainspring of the new world order. Moreover, the author explains why Japan must use their technological lead to...
