This book is addressed to non-Japanese who want to understand the Japanese business insiderÂ’s point of view by focusing on business behavior in the large Japanese corporation. In this book you will experience Japanese business life by looking over the shoulder of a salaryman. The author supplemented his experiences and researches by conducting over fifty interview with salarymen from a wide…
This is a book of 13 articles that capture insightful applications of "Sun Zi Bingfa", the well-known Chinese military classic written more than 2.000 years ago. Topics covered include leadership, teamwork, dealing with competition, finding competitive niches, creativity and innovation, human resource management. With the increased economic importance of China, more and more people are inter…
All leaders know people are critical to the success of organizations. Executives just don't act that way sometimes. Why? Because they lack the facts. Too often they don't know which workforce practices create the greatest value or which attributes of a workforce are critical to business strategy. Absent these facts executives look outside for cues on what to do through benchmarking and searc…
This volume deals with the beginning of a new era in the theory of strategic management. New concepts and techniques are developed and the fundamentals of the content and the process of strategic management are questioned in depth. Using a resource-based perspective, the concept of core competence allows a proactive construction of competence, perceives competence as spanning multiple businesse…
Table Of Contents: Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Economics: foundations and models Chapter 2. Trade-Off, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System Chapter 3. Where Prices Come From: the interaction of demand and supply Chapter 4. Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes Part 2. Markets in Action Chapter 5. Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods Ch…
Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, Kim and Mauborgne argue that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed not by battling competitors, but by creating "blue oceans" of uncontested market space ripe for growth. Such strategic moves - termed "value innovation" - create powerful leaps in value for both the firm and its buyers, renderin…
How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible…