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Item Beyond Beijing: The Course of Women’s Struggle for Equal Opportunity in Japan(IC² Institute, 1997-02) Naff, ClaytonDiscusses the opportunity for change in Japan towards a more gender-equitable system. Describes the role of women in Japan’s industrialization and development of its peculiar management system. Discusses the legal, corporate and external framework for workforce equality. Explains the role of the 1997 U.N. conference on women in Beijing in helping to spur on the internationalization of the Japanese women’s movement, with a renewed sense of being part of Asia. Concludes that within a decade, Japanese companies will likely offer women greater equality of opportunity, particularly at the professional level, but, at the same time, all employees will enjoy far less assurance of security and income growth.Item Doing Business with a High-Tech Focus in Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan(IC² Institute, 1999-06) Cong, DachangIntroduces the economic conditions and high-tech research and development scenarios in post-crisis Asia. Explores challenges and opportunities for American high tech industries. Discusses issues related to doing business with the Japanese and Chinese, including understanding management and the need for better cross-cultural training.Item Future Business in Japan: Opportunities or Threats?(IC² Institute, 1998-04) Krueger, Stanley P.Describes the current state of Japan with an eye on the signs that show where the country is going, and how it may affect foreign businesses. Examines one established industry, aerospace, and one new industry, environmental, and identifies opportunities for American companies.Item How Visual Images Help Run Japanese Factories(IC² Institute, 1997-01) Miller, StevenDiscusses management and technical staff’s extensive use of visual images in the control system of Japanese factories to structure information so that everyone may understand the plan, execute it, identify errors and solve any problems related to performance gaps. Describes the control system, the plan-do-see (PDS) cycle, and the crucial role visual communications play in its effectiveness in identifying problems and correcting them in an efficient manner. Argues that U.S companies may benefit from the use of visual images, not only in their dealings with Japanese companies, but also for improving comprehension and factory floor performance in their own factories.Item International Human Resource Management in Japanese Multinationals(IC² Institute, 1999-07-21) Bird, AllanDiscusses the tactical decisions firms make in the process of establishing management systems in overseas subsidiaries and their strategic effects on the function of the management system as it relates to organizational learning. Introduces a typology of organizational learning models by analyzing 114 Japanese subsidiaries. Uses the typology to discuss the differences across Japanese multinational corporations in terms of how they learn and the levels at which they learn. Argues that what was learned, how much was learned and who learned was determined by the particulars of the learning process itself. Suggests four learning types among the Japanese multinational corporations studied based on analysis of decision patterns. Describes the implications for how Japanese multinational corporations should approach learning in their foreign operations and addresses the import the findings might have for non-Japanese corporations.Item The Internet Age: Japan’s Challenge to E-Business(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000-05-03) Takagi, YujiAddress by Yuji Takagi, General Manager of Mitsui & Co. (USA) Inc., on the future of the Internet industry in the context of Japanese business and consumer culture.Item The Internet Age: Japan’s Challenge to E-Business(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000-05-03) Takagi, YujiAddress by Yuji Takagi, General Manager of Mitsui & Co. (USA) Inc., on the future of the Internet industry in the context of Japanese business and consumer culture.Item Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Japan?(IC² Institute, 1999-07-21) Kubarych, Roger M.Explores Japan’s economic predicament and prospects for eventual recovery. Describes the origins of Japan’s economic issues and draws contrasts between Japan and America/Europe in terms of human resources, finance and politics. Offers three schools of thought on what will happen to Japan’s economic predicament in the coming years. Provides five factors justifying optimism: increases in foreign investment, deregulation of financial markets, business restructuring, bureaucratic self-awareness and the rise of the Internet. Describes additional reforms necessary for recovery, including tax reform, modernization of land use policy, acceleration of risk-taking, prevention of unwise government spending and deregulation. Offers implications for a Japanese recovery for the U.S.Item Japan and a New International Security Paradigm(IC² Institute, 1999-03-11) DiFilippo, AnthonyArgues that Japan has the potential to be recognized as a post-Cold War superpower, but has not been able to do so because of a lack of military/nuclear power and its alignment with the U.S. Discusses two security options, developing an offensive-oriented military and creating a new security paradigm based on United Nations–centered security and nuclear disarmament. Dismisses the first option as implausible and problematic and describes four areas, related to the second option, requiring steps for Japan to acquire superpower status: (1) advance the international perception that national pride may be raised by non-military use of science and technology, (2) make politically creative use of foreign assistance spending, (3) enlarge its role in diplomatic policy development, and (4) be willing to use engagement policies in its relations with the U.S. and other nations will nuclear weapons, such as tying trade concessions to participation in a global disarmament process.Item Japanese Banking Reform: Will It Be In Time?(IC² Institute, 1998-11-05) Sazanami, YokoDiscusses, as an interim report by an academic involved in the emergency policy package to stabilize the Japanese financial system, the objective of the capital injection to 21 banks in March 1998, the merger package and ultimate failure of the Long-term Credit Bank in September 1998 and current policy efforts to reform banks to meet the so-called “Big Bang” challenge.Item Japanese Entrepreneurship and Opportunities for Partnering(IC² Institute, 1999-06-29) Nishiyama, HidehikoAs part of the Japan Industry and Management of Technology (JIMT) Speaker Series, discusses the importance of entrepreneurship and new technologies in securing Japan’s full economic recovery from the current economic slump. Describes the history of Japanese entrepreneurship, which experienced a golden age after WWII, and how the rise of large corporations led to less risk-taking, effectively stifling venture firms chances for success in the market. Discusses new government programs aimed at fostering venture firm growth and changes required in education, banking, mergers and acquisitions, the bankruptcy system and regional competition to support entrepreneurship. Describes current trends in small business and venture firms and the possibility for partnering with U.S. firms in collaborative research.Item Japanese Multimedia Industry Update(IC² Institute, 1996-02) Sytles, ChrisDiscusses a new trend among Japan’s giant electronics and telecommunications companies and ministries: a concerted effort to develop a multimedia society like the one growing in the U.S. Describes efforts by Japanese computer and electronics conglomerates to promote multimedia by creating multimedia divisions, acquiring new media technology through joint ventures, and shifting from hardware to software and services. Discusses the Japanese government’s role in the development of a methodology to determine how to create Japan’s information infrastructure and describes some of the projects in Japan’s ministries designed to lead the way.Item Japanese Style Networks and Innovations in High-Technology Firms in Texas(IC² Institute, 1997-11) Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie L.Discusses U.S.-Japanese competitiveness and how it might affect policy and the high-technology industry. Describes Japanese knowledge and spatial networks with a focus on their contribution to innovations. Discusses previous studies on the high-tech industry, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of different criteria used to classify firms as high-tech firms. Discusses an analysis of employment trends in the main high-tech regions in the U.S. Applies a new classification of high-tech establishments for study and presents the results from an empirical analysis of the contribution of knowledge networks and spatial proximity to the innovation performance of high-tech firms in Texas. Argues that policies designed to enhance regional development through innovation should take into account whether local or non-local knowledge linkages are more significant for innovation.Item Japan’s Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Initiative and the Politics of International Technology Collaboration(IC² Institute, 1997-04) Corning, Gregory P.Discusses Japan’s Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) initiative, an international research program in manufacturing technology with the goal of developing a next-generation production system to maximize efficiency by integrating the entire range of business activity from order-booking through design, manufacture and distribution. Examines the role of techno-nationalism, foreign pressure, and scientific and technical factors in motivating Japan’s original IMS proposal. Examines the framework of the IMS program emerging from negotiations between Japan, the U.S. and the European Union. Examines the experience of Japanese and foreign firms in IMS. Evaluates IMS as a potential model for large-scale, industrial R&D collaboration. Argues that future interest in the model will be determined by whether it generates sufficient research results over the next ten years that firms can justify the overhead of organizing research collaboration on a global scale.Item Marketing’s War on Japanese Culture Memory(IC² Institute, 1998-10-08) Lamont, DouglasDescribes research showing how American brands come to dominate similar market segments in developed and emerging countries. Discusses recent evidence suggesting that product standardization and promotion adaptation, rather than standardization across marketing functions, earn profits worldwide and create value added within nations. Also, discusses new evidence from financial services suggesting that product standardization and price adaptation make up the core of the American marketing strategy towards investors from oversees. Describes the evidence for Japan. Reflects on America’s marketing war on cultural memory and why it has been slower and less successful in Japan than elsewhere in the world.Item The Politics of Sustainable Development in Japan(IC² Institute, 1999-01-28) Park, JacobDiscusses three important questions and issues regarding Japan’s role in global environmental affairs: how the environmental movement has evolved in Japan; what the country’s major environmental policy challenges are on the local-national, regional and global level; and, how Japanese companies are responding to the sustainability challenge. Describes unresolved sustainability questions facing Japan and how the current economic situation has overshadowed the urgency of sustainability. Describes the passing of the pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR) system and as encouraging sign for future sustainability efforts, not only because it gives the Environment Agency administrative authority over companies, but also because it signals a path towards increased accountability and transparency.Item Setting the Stage: Government-Industry Creation of the Japanese Fax Industry(IC² Institute, 1997-03) Coopersmith, JonathanDiscusses the significance of the Japanese government’s role in the development of fax technology as a good model of how governments can influence the agents shaping technology. Describes how the Japanese government’s push on domestic fax manufacturers and telephone companies in the 1970s to create a common standard lead to the fax boom of the 1980s.Item Structural Gaiastu: International Finance and Political Change in Japan(IC² Institute, 1999-04-21) Pempel, T.J.Argues that the principal contributor to changes in Japan’s political economy is the decline of Japanese governmental control over capital flows and foreign exchange rates brought about by structural “gaiatsu”, or direct foreign pressure. Differs from previous analysis of gaiatsu by arguing that international capital and market forces generate gaiatsu, not foreign governments, and that its influence has been worldwide as well as deeper and more ongoing than bilateral negotiating sessions and joint communiqués related to trade. Discusses how the change has catalyzed a major increase in foreign direct investment by Japanese-owned corporations, a reduction in government’s ability to control corporate behavior, a diminution of intra-corporate linkages, conflict within national economic policies and the increased penetration of the Japanese economy by foreign financial institutions. Describes how the change has resulted in an emerging socio-economic gap in Japan between individuals, groups and organizations. Demonstrates how the Japanese experience suggests the transformative power of global capital markets on national political economies, particularly those that have been interventionist in nature.Item Trade, Corporatism, Clusters, and Japan as Bellweather(IC² Institute, 1999-02) Phillips, Fred Y.Remarks on the trend toward corporatism in the U.S. and outlines the latest developments, namely the MAI treaty, and examines how what we know about Japanese business and society does and does not signal what we can expect from increased corporatism in the U.S. Speculates on the effect of the new corporatism of the OECD countries on scientific progress, innovation and high technology clusters.