Cases on International Business and Finance in Japanese Corporations

by Misawa, Mitsuru

• ISBN13: 9789622098916
• ISBN10: 9622098916
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-01
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

While Japan's export-oriented economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain between the management philosophy and techniques used within Japanese companies and those used in the West. These include the significant differ

Author Biography

Mitsura Misawa is a professor of finance (International Finance and International Banking) and the director of the Center for Japanese Global Investment and Finance at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Table of Contents

Tokyo Disneyland: Licensing versus Joint Venture	p. 11
Tokyo Disneyland and the DisneySea Park: Corporate Governance and Differences in Capital Budgeting Concepts and Methods between American and Japanese Companies	p. 29
A Rogue Trader at Daiwa Bank (A): Management Responsibility under Different Jurisprudential Systems, Practices, and Cultures	p. 49
A Rogue Trader at Daiwa Bank (B): The Board Meeting on September 25, 1995, in Japan	p. 61
Hostile Takeover Battle in Japan: Fuji TV versus Livedoor for NBS	p. 65
Livedoor: The Rise and Fall of a Market Maverick	p. 87
Nireco Japan: Introduction of the Poison Pill	p. 99
Ina Food Industry: A New Management Philosophy for Japanese Businesses	p. 119
OSG Corporation: Hedging Transaction Exposure	p. 133
Bank of Japan's Meeting in March 2006: An End to the Quantitative	p. 151
Index	p. 169
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