Some Human Management Aspects of M&A in Japan—Obstacles and Opportunities Offered to Foreign Companies

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  • Philippe Debroux Hiroshima City University, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32890/mmj1997.2.1.2

Abstract

Out-in mergers and acquisitions activities in Japan have gradually increased but stay at a level extremely low compared with the situation in the Western World. Regulatory aspects remain important to explain this, but despite rapid changes in the socio-cultural environment, some idiosyncracies resulting from the concept of company remain. Japan is undertaking rapid soda-cultural changes and we should avoid being dragged into past perceptions far away from the modern reality. Nevertheless, as these characteristics lead, even today in a period of transition, to different management rules and labour attitudes and behaviour, they should still be considered with great care when doing business in Japan.

 

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Published

01-06-1997

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (1997): Malaysian Management Journal (MMJ) Vol. 2 No. 1 June 1997

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Articles

How to Cite

Debroux, P. (1997). Some Human Management Aspects of M&A in Japan—Obstacles and Opportunities Offered to Foreign Companies. Malaysian Management Journal, 2(1), 11-22. https://doi.org/10.32890/mmj1997.2.1.2

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